Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830This 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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Contents
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CHAPTER 2 One Basin Two Poles | 85 |
CHAPTER 3 A Stable Maritime Consolidation | 212 |
CHAPTER 4 The Least Coherent Territory in the World | 338 |
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| Title | Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830 Studies in Comparative World History |
| Author | Victor Lieberman |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1139437623, 9781139437622 |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / General History / Asia / Southeast Asia |
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