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Maritime Ryukyu, 1050-1650 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smits, Gregory, 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Ryukyu Islands > History > To 1879.
Ryukyu Islands > Politics and government.
Pirates > East Asia.
Table of Contents:
  • Ryukyu in the East China Sea network
  • Wakō and the Ryukyu Islands
  • A state for trade purposes
  • The enigma of the three principalities
  • Geographies of power
  • The first Shō Dynasty
  • Seizures, erasures, and resurgences
  • The second Shō Dynasty's challenges
  • Assembling a royal line
  • Centering Shuri and forging an empire
  • The Ryukyu Empire
  • Politics and religion
  • A changing world and the road to war
  • The war
  • Aftermath
  • Many Ryukyus.