Strange parallels : Southeast Asia in global context, c 800-1830. Volume 2, Mainland mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the islands / 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 (xxvi, 947 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a Eurasian-wide pattern whereby local isolates cohered to form ever larger, more stable, more complex political and cultural systems. With accelerating force, climatic, commercial, and military stimuli joined to produce patterns of linear-cum-cyclic construction that became remarkably synchronized even between regions that had no contact with one another. Yet this study also distinguishes between two zones of integration, one where indigenous groups remained in control and a second where agency gravitated to external conquest elites. Here, then, is a fundamentally original view of Eurasia during a 1,000-year period that speaks to both historians of individual regions and those interested in global trends.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Abbreviations Used in the Notes; Preface; Chapter one: A Far Promontory: Southeast Asia and Eurasia; Chapter two: Varieties of European Experience, I: The Formation of Russia and France to c. 1600; Chapter three: Varieties of European Experience, II: A Great Acceleration, c. 1600-1830; Chapter four: Creating Japan; Chapter five: Integration Under Expanding Inner Asian Influence, I: China: A Precocious and Durable Unity

Chapter six: Integration Under Expanding Inner Asian Influence, II: South Asia: Patterns Intermediate Between China and the Protected ZoneChapter seven: Locating the Islands; Conclusion; Index

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20962-5

0-511-70057-1

1-282-46695-X

9786612466953

0-511-81600-6

0-511-65799-4

0-511-65854-0

0-511-65668-8

0-511-65583-5

0-511-65723-4

OCLC:

609850337