New perspectives on the history and historiography of Southeast Asia : continuing explorations / edited by Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin and Kenneth R. Hall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aung-Thwin, Michael.

Hall, Kenneth R.

Series:

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 68.

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 68

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southeast Asia--Historiography.

Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using a unique ""old-new"" treatment, this book presents new perspectives on several important topics in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Based on original, primary research, it reinterprets and revises several long-held conventional views in the field, covering the period from the ""classical"" age to the twentieth century. Chapters share the approach to Southeast Asian history and historiography: namely, giving ""agency"" to Southeast Asia in all research, analysis, writing, and interpretation. The book honours John K. Whitmore, a senior historian in the field of Southea

Contents:

Front Cover; New Perspectives on the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia; Copyright Page; Contents; Maps, tables, figures and illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; 1. Introduction: Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin and Kenneth R. Hall; 2. John K. Whitmore's contribution to Vietnamese and Southeast Asian studies: Victor Lieberman; 3. A new/old look at "classical" and "post-classical" Southeast Asia/Burma: Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin; 4. Sojourning communities, ports-of-trade, and commercial networking in Southeast Asia's eastern regions, c. 1000-1400: Kenneth R. Hall

5. Chinese-style gunpowder weapons in Southeast Asia: focusing on archeological evidence: Sun Laichen6. To catch a tiger: the suppression of the Yang Yinglong Miao uprising (1587-1600) as a case study in Ming military and borderlands history: Kenneth M. Swope; 7. Maritime subversions and socio-political formations in Vietnamese history: a look from the marginal center (mien Trung): Charles Wheeler; 8. "1620," a cautionary tale: Michael Vickery; 9. The imported book trade and Confucian learning in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Vietnam: Li Tana

10. Literacy in early seventeenth-century Northern Vietnam: Keith W. Taylor11. The limping monk and the deaf king: peasant politics, subaltern agency, and the postcolonial predicament in colonial Burma: Maitrii Aung-Thwin; 12. The myths of the Tet Offensive: Edwin E. Moïse; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-81963-0

1-283-15140-5

9786613151407

1-136-81964-9

0-203-83005-9

9780203830055

OCLC:

773564678