Bibliograph

Strange parallels, Southeast Asia in global context, c 800-1830, Victor Lieberman

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Strange parallels, Southeast Asia in global context, c 800-1830, Victor Lieberman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Strange parallels

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

49820972

Responsibility statement

Victor Lieberman

Series statement

Studies in comparative world history

Sub title

Southeast Asia in global context, c 800-1830

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

v. 1. Integration on the Mainland: Principal eras on the mainland -- v. 2. Mainland mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the islands

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