Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland : Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830 Paperback / softback
by Victor (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Lieberman
Part of the Studies in Comparative World History series
Paperback / softback
Description
This ambitious work has two novel goals: to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, and to connect Southeast Asian to world history.
Combining careful local research with wide-ranging theory Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast Asia's great lowland corridors experienced a pattern of accelerating integration punctuated by recurrent collapse.
These trajectories were synchronized not only between corridors, but most curiously, between the mainland as a whole, much of Europe, and other sectors of Eurasia.
He describes in detail the nature of mainland consolidation - which was simultaneously territorial, religious, ethnic, and commercial - and dissects the mix of endogenous and external factors responsible.
Here, then, is a fundamentally original analysis not only of Southeast Asia, but of the pre-modern world.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:510 pages, 7 Maps; 8 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/05/2003
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- ISBN:9780521804967
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:510 pages, 7 Maps; 8 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/05/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521804967
