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Book Review: Coastal Histories: Society and Ecology in Pre-Modern India

shipbuilding is simply mind-boggling. It is unfortunate that the meticulous work of Hans Bielenstein on Tang and Song embassies (2005) did not come to Heng's attention. The authoritative summaries ofYuan political history in Cambridge History ofChina, Volume 6 (1994) are not noted. It is fascinating and somewhat counter-intuitive to find, on pp. 44-49, that restrictions on the export ofcopper cash often seen as strangling mercantile activity in state control and taxation were lifted during the reform regime of Wang Anshi. We should not expect Heng to solve this puzzle, but he does not seem to have noticed it, and his references to the English language scholarship on Wang Anshi are minimal. There is a lot ofhard work and good thinking in this book, and it is sad that the author, the readers who evaluated the manuscript, and the publishers marred the end product by their carelessness.