Money, Markets, and Trade in Early Southeast Asia: The Development of Indigenous Monetary Systems to AD 1400Money places an explicit value on all things and this work by Robert S. Wicks explores the impact of monetization in premodern Southeast Asia from the third century BC to the rise of Maleka in the early fifteenth century. Ideas about money developed unevenly throughout the region and the author, in seven case studies written in a highly narrative style, explores why this was so. He considers trade policies, price controls, exchange ratios, monopolies, variant standards of value, and the administrative complexity necessary for such economic complexity. Reproduced data, maps, tables, and figures display the intertwining of anthropology, archeology, history, culture, and economics. -- Amazon.com. |
Contents
Its Character and Origins | 6 |
The Economics of Accommodation | 19 |
Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Southeastern Bengal Assam and Arakan | 66 |
Mon Pyu and Pagan | 111 |
From Dvāravatī to the Rise of Ayudhya | 157 |
Money and Society in Ancient Cambodia and Champa | 183 |
Money in Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula | 219 |
Money and Society in Java Bali and the Eastern Archipelago | 243 |
Valuational Concepts and the Geography of Money Use in Early | 301 |
Selected References | 315 |
Glossary of Early Southeast Asian Monetary Numismatic and Metrological | 348 |
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