Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland - Southeast Asia in Global Context, C.800-1830

Klappentext A novel analysis that looks at early Southeast Asian history in terms of integration and collapse. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the ends of the earth: Part A. Rethinking Southeast Asia; Part B. Implications for Eurasia; 2. One basin, two poles: the western mainland and the formation of Burma; 3. A stable, maritime consolidation: the central mainland; 4. 'The least coherent territory in the world': Vietnam and the eastern mainland; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Victor Lieberman, Victor B. Lieberman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.05.2003
• EAN: 9780521804967
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80496-7
• No. of pages: 510
• Series: Studies in Comparative World History; Studies in Comparative World H; Studies in Comparative World History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous