Strange parallels : Southeast Asia in global context, c. 800-1830. Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland / Victor Lieberman. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lieberman, Victor B., 1945- author.

Series:

Studies in comparative world history.

Studies in comparative world history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southeast Asia--Historiography.

Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 484 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

v. 1. Integration on the Mainland

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780511105708

0511105703

9781107130289

110713028X

9781280160448

1280160446

9780511119286

0511119283

9780511063299

0511063296

9780511204159

0511204159

9780511306969

0511306962

9780511512087

0511512082

9780511071751

0511071752

OCLC:

252482354

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06432 hdl