Water Frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880 Condition:Good never losing sight of the

never losing sight of the prize he values above all others: the unity and love of his family

The result is a riveting analysis of the two landscapes and their different views of life and death

Babylon's Ashes

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Water Frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880 Condition:Good never losing sight of theWater Frontier focuses principally on southwest Indochina (from modern southern Vietnam into eastern Cambodia and southwestern Thailand), which it calls the Lower Mekong region. The book's contributors argue that, during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this area formed a single trading zone woven together by the regular itineraries of thousands of large and small junk traders. This zone in turn formed a regional component of the wider