Buch, Englisch, 508 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 971 g
Buch, Englisch, 508 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 971 g
Reihe: Studies in Comparative World History
ISBN: 978-0-521-80086-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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.
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1. Introduction: the ends of the earth: Part A. Rethinking Southeast Asia; Part B. Implications for Eurasia; 2. One basin, two poles: the western mainland and the formation of Burma; 3. A stable, maritime consolidation: the central mainland; 4. 'The least coherent territory in the world': Vietnam and the eastern mainland; Conclusion.
