講 題："The Spice Trade as Asian History and as Global History"（Fairbank Center Special Presentation）
主講人：Eric Tagliacozzo（Associate Professor of History, Cornell University）
日 時：September 24, 2012（Mon）17：00～
會 場：Williams Hall, Room 202, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania （642 Williams Hall | 255 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305, U.S.A.）
內容簡介：
The search for spices is one of the most important currents that has run through both Asian History and Global History writ-large. Spices connected regional worlds in Asia from a very early date, but they eventually came to help forge a global story of inter-connection as well over what the French historian Fernand Braudel has called the longue duree, or the "long term". Yet spices have traditionally been written out of these histories after the Early Modern Age; it's as if these rare but fragrant commodities ceased to hold the eye of historians, as other goods became more important in the narrative of evolving human connectivity. In this talk, I will ask how West, South, East, and Southeast Asia were connected by these goods, and how this story changed over the centuries. Looking over the "long term", I also ask how spices can still be seen to be important in our own world, especially in how we fashion ourselves a global society.
講者簡介：
Eric Tagliacozzo is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University (USA), where he primarily teaches Southeast Asian Studies. He is the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915 (Yale, 2005), which won the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) in 2007. He is also the editor or co-editor of four books: Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue Duree (Stanford, 2009); Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries Between History and Anthropology (Stanford, 2009); The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke, 2009), and Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities and Networks in Southeast Asia (Duke, 2011). His next monograph, The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
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