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

Klappentext 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. 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Victor Lieberman, Victor (University of Michigan Lieberman, Victor B. Lieberman, Lieberman Victor
• Collaboration: Edmund Burke (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 09.06.2003
• EAN: 9780521800860
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80086-0
• Pages: 510
• Thèmes: Studies in Comparative World H; Studies in Comparative World History
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, South East Asia, Asian History