Abstract
The Open Door. Early Modern Wajorese Statecraft and Diaspora, written by Kathryn Anderson Wellen
Highlights
Wellen’s study adds to current work that goes beyond the long held dichotomy between the state and diaspora (as she notes, Philip Curtin’s ‘sharp delineation between trading diaspora and host society has not withstood the test of time’ (p. 10))
The author is well versed in the main debates and concepts that dominate the field of diaspora networks, as predecessors who have shown the limitations of this diaspora/ host state dichotomy, Wellen cites three scholars: Jonathan Israel, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Wajorese participation in state building brings to mind the role of Jewish trading networks in Europe, the Armenians in Iran, and the Iranians abroad regarding each of these group’s participation in state-building in the host societies
Summary
This detailed and fascinating study is a first book by Kathryn Wellen based on a rich trove of documents which shed light on the Bugis kingdom of Wajoq in South Sulawesi and its unique economic and political success in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through unexamined and difficult to read documentation, the author successfully highlights the relationship between this Wajorese diaspora and state-building during the early modern period.
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