The Southeast Asia connection : trade and polities in the Eurasian world economy, 500 BC-AD 500 / Sing C. Chew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chew, Sing C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commerce.

History.

Southeast Asia--Commerce--History.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

x, 178 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2018.

Summary:

"The contribution of Southeast Asia to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not received much attention. It has often been viewed as a region of peripheral entrepots, especially in the early centuries of the current era. Recent archaeological evidence revealed the existence of established and productive polities in Southeast Asia in the early parts of the historic period and earlier. This book recalibrates these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region its due instead of treating it as little more than of marginal interest."-- Back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-169) and index.

ISBN:

9781785337888

1785337882

OCLC:

1004050570