Victor Lieberman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 256285 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Victor Lieberman |
| PRENOMES | Victor |
| SOBRENOME | Lieberman |
| ASSINATURA | LIEBERMAN V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Michigan |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 226 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Ethnic Hatred and Universal Benevolence
Insisting on a radical divide between post-1750 ideologies in Europe and earlier political thought in both Europe and Asia, modernist scholars of nationalism have called attention, quite justifiably, to European nationalisms' unique focus on popular sovereignty, legal equality, territorial fixity, and the primacy of secular over universal religious loyalties. Yet this essay argues that nationalism also shared basic developmental and expressive fe…
Why was nationalism European? Political ethnicity in Asia and Europe 1400–1850
This article compares European nationalism and earlier notions of political community in Europe and Asia. Without denying the discursive novelty of post-1750 nationalism, it argues that eighteenth-century social and economic incentives to ethnic integration in individual European countries accelerated much older dynamics. Moreover, in the same period, c . 1400–1850, as state-centred ethnicities cohered in Europe, similar processes produced broadl…
CommunicationsReviews
Journal Article Communications Get access The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 4, October 2015, Pages 1605–1610, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/120.4.1605 Published: 09 October 2015
Ian Brown. Burma's Economy in the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Ian Brown. Burma's Economy in the Twentieth Century. Get access Ian Brown. Burma's Economy in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii, 229. $29.99. Victor Lieberman Victor Lieberman University of Michigan [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 1, February 2015, Pages 212–213, https://doi.org/10.…
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not
Why was Western Europe, Britain in particular, the first to industrialise? Given the tectonic shifts in global power that industrialisation brought with it—imbalances that are only now beginning to ebb—this is arguably the central question of early modern historiography. Answers tend to fall into two categories. A venerable Eurocentric tradition, extending from James Mill and Max Weber through David Landes and Niall Ferguson, has claimed that Eur…
The Impact of Climate on Southeast Asia, circa 950-1820
The recent discovery of continuous tree-ring series starting as early as 1030 CE has for the first time made possible the reconstruction of historical climates for much of mainland Southeast Asia. Perhaps the most dramatic finding is that wide cyclic fluctuations in the reach and volume of monsoon rains contributed substantially to both the genesis and the collapse of the charter civilizations of Angkor, Pagan, and Dai Viet. Fromcirca1450-1820 cl…
South East Asia and Eurasia during a Thousand Years
During roughly a thousand years, from c 800 to 1830, in each of mainland South East Asia's three principal corridors, once self-sufficient political and cultural isolates became integrated into larger, more stable systems. In basic form, chronology and dynamics, this long-term process resembled that in other parts of Eurasia's ‘protected rimlands’, including Europe and Japan. But despite certain pan-Eurasian features, long-term integration in the…
Response to Comments on Strange Parallels
I am grateful to The Journal of Asian Studies for organizing this forum and to the seven contributors for taking the time to read my volume(s) and to wrestle with the issues raised therein. The resultant essays fall into two categories. Eric Tagliacozzo, Carolyn Cartier, and John Wills, Jr., examine Asia or Eurasia broadly conceived, whereas Robert Hellyer, Victor Mair, Ramya Sreenivasan, and Leonard Andaya weigh the applicability of my work to p…
Charter State Collapse in Southeast Asia, ca. 1250–1400, as a Problem in Regional and World History
What Strange Parallels Sought to Accomplish
Three broad concerns inspired Strange Parallels. First, like many students of Southeast Asia, I was long troubled by the fragmented, kaleidoscopic nature of much precolonial historiography. Curiosity to see if I could detect long term, overarching patterns provided my initial spur
Maritime influences in Southeast Asia, c . 900–1300
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A zone of refuge in Southeast Asia? Reconceptualizing interior spaces
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Strange Parallels
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, climati…
The Qing Dynasty and Its Neighbors
Peter C. Perdue's China Marches West argues that the Qing dynasty's ability to break through historical territorial barriers on China's northwestern frontier reflected greater Manchu familiarity with steppe culture than their Chinese predecessors had exhibited, reinforced by superior commercial, technical, and symbolic resources and the benefits of a Russian alliance. Qing imperial expansion illustrated patterns of territorial consolidation appar…
The Qing Dynasty and Its Neighbors
Peter C. Perdue's China Marches West argues that the Qing dynasty's ability to break through historical territorial barriers on China's northwestern frontier reflected greater Manchu familiarity with steppe culture than their Chinese predecessors had exhibited, reinforced by superior commercial, technical, and symbolic resources and the benefits of a Russian alliance. Qing imperial expansion illustrated patterns of territorial consolidation appar…
Protected Rimlands and Exposed Zones
In a recent study, I sought to analyze political and cultural patterns across mainland Southeast Asia during roughly a thousand years, from c. 800 to 1830. 1 In brief, I argued that each of mainland Southeast Asia's three great north-south corridors experienced a pattern of accelerating integration. This process was territorial in the sense that some twenty-three small polities in the fourteenth century were assimilated, gradually or convulsively…
Excising the ‚Mon Paradigm’ from Burmese historiography
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Strange Parallels
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…
Some Comparative Thoughts on Premodern Southeast Asian Warfare
Between c. 1550 and 1650 discrepant political and economic contexts in the central Philippines, northeast Indonesia, and Burma produced distinctive military logics. In the pre-literate, localized societies of the Philippines and the interior of Indonesian islands, raiders sought heads for spiritual power and captives for ransom or labor, but along the coasts of northeast Indonesia wider religious and trade contacts and European-style guns bred a …
Beyond Binary Histories
Mainland-Archipelagic Parallels and Contrasts, c.1750–1850
According to certain entirely valid criteria, the histories of mainland and archipelagic Southeast Asia ran parallel during the last century before the onset of high imperialism, roughly 1750 to 1850. 1 Along with the mainland, for example, most of the archipelago saw significant increases in overall population, economic specialization and external trade. In economically precocious districts throughout the region, the growing prominence and commu…
Transcending East-West Dichotomies
Although the question has assumed at least two principal forms, most scholars who would compare the history of Europe and Asia have long been absorbed with a single query: Why was Asia different
An Age of Commerce in Southeast Asia? Problems of Regional Coherence—A Review Article
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Abu-Lughod's Egalitarian World Order. A Review Article
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Local Integration and Eurasian Analogies
The historiography of precolonial Southeast Asia remains remarkably fragmented and inaccessible, even by the standards of that variegated region. We have a limited number of country monographs. But no systematic overview of Southeast Asian political or economic history has been attempted for all, or even part, of the period between the waning of the classical states in the fourteenth century and the onset of high colonialism in the early nineteen…
Burmese Administrative Cycles
Ethnic Politics in Eighteenth-Century Burma
We commonly find in the literature on pre-colonial mainland Southeast Asia a tendency to treat the principal ethnic groups-Burmese, Mons, Siamese, Cambodians, Vietnamese-as discrete political categories. This tendency is particularly marked in the historiography of the Irrawaddy valley, where the recurrent north-south conflicts of the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries have usually been interpreted as 'national' or 'racial' struggles between th…
A zone of refuge in Southeast Asia? Reconceptualizing interior spaces
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Local Integration and Eurasian Analogies
The historiography of precolonial Southeast Asia remains remarkably fragmented and inaccessible, even by the standards of that variegated region. We have a limited number of country monographs. But no systematic overview of Southeast Asian political or economic history has been attempted for all, or even part, of the period between the waning of the classical states in the fourteenth century and the onset of high colonialism in the early nineteen…
The Political Significance of Religious Wealth in Burmese History
This article examines the recent assertion by a scholar of Burmese history that extensive landholding by the Buddhist monkhood helped to undermine every dynasty between the ninth and nineteenth century. It argues that religious wealth, possibly before the fifteenth century and certainly after that period, was less significant than has been suggested, and that the institutional relation between throne and monkhood was by no means static. During th…
Reinterpreting Burmese History
Problems of periodization have received but limited attention in Burmese historiography. Precolonial, that is to say, pre-nineteenth-century history, is said to be of a piece, without significant institutional or social transformations. Dynasties and rulers changed, of course, sometimes with stunning rapidity; but it is always assumed that these oscillations occurred within a static framework. Lamenting the failure of the early Kon-baung kings to…
Transcending East-West Dichotomies
Although the question has assumed at least two principal forms, most scholars who would compare the history of Europe and Asia have long been absorbed with a single query: Why was Asia different
Secular Trends in Burmese Economic History, c. 1350–1830, and their Implications for State Formation
Scholars of Burma cannot, in good conscience, invoke the usual justification — lack of adequate primary materials — for failing to construct an economic history of the precolonial era. By comparison with Siam, Cambodia, the Malay principalities, or indeed any Indianized Southeast Asian society with the possible exception of Java, Burma offers a uniquely continuous and voluminous array of documents bearing on patterns of cultivation, monetization,…
The Impact of Climate on Southeast Asia, circa 950-1820
The recent discovery of continuous tree-ring series starting as early as 1030 CE has for the first time made possible the reconstruction of historical climates for much of mainland Southeast Asia. Perhaps the most dramatic finding is that wide cyclic fluctuations in the reach and volume of monsoon rains contributed substantially to both the genesis and the collapse of the charter civilizations of Angkor, Pagan, and Dai Viet. Fromcirca1450-1820 cl…
How Reliable is U Kala's Burmese Chronicle? Some New Comparisons
Rarely has a national historiographic tradition depended so heavily on a single author as the Burmese tradition has on U Kala. A native of Ava in Upper Burma, U Kala completed the so-called “Great Chronicle”, the Maha-ya-zawin-gyi , in the early eighteenth century. Beginning, logically enough, with the start of the current world cycle and the Buddhist version of ancient Indian history, this chronicle proceeded with ever increasing detail to narra…
Burmese Administrative Cycles
An Age of Commerce in Southeast Asia? Problems of Regional Coherence—A Review Article
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The transfer of the Burmese capital from Pegu to Ava
like Anaw-rahta's conquest of Thahton or the Mongol expeditions against Pagan, Tha-lun's transfer of capital from Pegu to Ava in 1634—5 is one of those prominent transitions in Burmese history which always attract comment in standard surveys. The pioneer historian of Burma G. E. Harvey claimed that the decision by Tha-lun (r. 1629–48) to forsake the coast in favour of the interior signified the abandonment of his predecessors' goal of a Burmese–M…
A New Look at theSāsanavaṃsa
TheSāsanavaṃsa'History of the religion', a Pali work written in Burma in 1861, has long been recognized as an important source for the study of Theravāda Buddhism. It is essentially a chronicle of famous monks which seeks to trace the lineal succession of orthodoxtherasfrom the Buddha's immediate disciple Upāli to the heads of thesaṅghaat Mandalay in the author's own lifetime. As early as 1882 Louis de Zoysa in hisCatalogue of Pali, Sinhalese, an…
Charter State Collapse in Southeast Asia, ca. 1250–1400, as a Problem in Regional and World History
Why was nationalism European? Political ethnicity in Asia and Europe 1400–1850
This article compares European nationalism and earlier notions of political community in Europe and Asia. Without denying the discursive novelty of post-1750 nationalism, it argues that eighteenth-century social and economic incentives to ethnic integration in individual European countries accelerated much older dynamics. Moreover, in the same period, c . 1400–1850, as state-centred ethnicities cohered in Europe, similar processes produced broadl…
Abu-Lughod's Egalitarian World Order. A Review Article
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Ethnic Hatred and Universal Benevolence
Insisting on a radical divide between post-1750 ideologies in Europe and earlier political thought in both Europe and Asia, modernist scholars of nationalism have called attention, quite justifiably, to European nationalisms' unique focus on popular sovereignty, legal equality, territorial fixity, and the primacy of secular over universal religious loyalties. Yet this essay argues that nationalism also shared basic developmental and expressive fe…
Protected Rimlands and Exposed Zones
In a recent study, I sought to analyze political and cultural patterns across mainland Southeast Asia during roughly a thousand years, from c. 800 to 1830. 1 In brief, I argued that each of mainland Southeast Asia's three great north-south corridors experienced a pattern of accelerating integration. This process was territorial in the sense that some twenty-three small polities in the fourteenth century were assimilated, gradually or convulsively…
Provincial reforms in Taung-ngu Burma
Studies of political and administrative institutions in pre-colonial Burma have almost invariably adopted a synchronic perspective. In those inquiries limited to two or three generations, the effort to present a composite picture entails perhaps few dangers. But in so far as these investigations embrace very long periods, or in so far as studies of a particular era have attempted to project their findings on to the pre-modern period as a whole, t…
South East Asia and Eurasia during a Thousand Years
During roughly a thousand years, from c 800 to 1830, in each of mainland South East Asia's three principal corridors, once self-sufficient political and cultural isolates became integrated into larger, more stable systems. In basic form, chronology and dynamics, this long-term process resembled that in other parts of Eurasia's ‘protected rimlands’, including Europe and Japan. But despite certain pan-Eurasian features, long-term integration in the…
Maritime influences in Southeast Asia, c . 900–1300
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Some Comparative Thoughts on Premodern Southeast Asian Warfare
Between c. 1550 and 1650 discrepant political and economic contexts in the central Philippines, northeast Indonesia, and Burma produced distinctive military logics. In the pre-literate, localized societies of the Philippines and the interior of Indonesian islands, raiders sought heads for spiritual power and captives for ransom or labor, but along the coasts of northeast Indonesia wider religious and trade contacts and European-style guns bred a …
Pagan
Centers, Symbols, and Hierarchies. Essays on the Classical States of Southeast Asia
A New Look at theSāsanavaṃsa
TheSāsanavaṃsa'History of the religion', a Pali work written in Burma in 1861, has long been recognized as an important source for the study of Theravāda Buddhism. It is essentially a chronicle of famous monks which seeks to trace the lineal succession of orthodoxtherasfrom the Buddha's immediate disciple Upāli to the heads of thesaṅghaat Mandalay in the author's own lifetime. As early as 1882 Louis de Zoysa in hisCatalogue of Pali, Sinhalese, an…
Ethnic Politics in Eighteenth-Century Burma
We commonly find in the literature on pre-colonial mainland Southeast Asia a tendency to treat the principal ethnic groups-Burmese, Mons, Siamese, Cambodians, Vietnamese-as discrete political categories. This tendency is particularly marked in the historiography of the Irrawaddy valley, where the recurrent north-south conflicts of the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries have usually been interpreted as 'national' or 'racial' struggles between th…
The transfer of the Burmese capital from Pegu to Ava
like Anaw-rahta's conquest of Thahton or the Mongol expeditions against Pagan, Tha-lun's transfer of capital from Pegu to Ava in 1634—5 is one of those prominent transitions in Burmese history which always attract comment in standard surveys. The pioneer historian of Burma G. E. Harvey claimed that the decision by Tha-lun (r. 1629–48) to forsake the coast in favour of the interior signified the abandonment of his predecessors' goal of a Burmese–M…
The Political Significance of Religious Wealth in Burmese History
This article examines the recent assertion by a scholar of Burmese history that extensive landholding by the Buddhist monkhood helped to undermine every dynasty between the ninth and nineteenth century. It argues that religious wealth, possibly before the fifteenth century and certainly after that period, was less significant than has been suggested, and that the institutional relation between throne and monkhood was by no means static. During th…
Provincial reforms in Taung-ngu Burma
Studies of political and administrative institutions in pre-colonial Burma have almost invariably adopted a synchronic perspective. In those inquiries limited to two or three generations, the effort to present a composite picture entails perhaps few dangers. But in so far as these investigations embrace very long periods, or in so far as studies of a particular era have attempted to project their findings on to the pre-modern period as a whole, t…
Burmese Sit-tans, 1764-1826. Records of Rural Life and Administration
A Note on Burmese Religious Landholdings
Editorial| August 01 1981 A Note on Burmese Religious Landholdings Victor B. Lieberman Victor B. Lieberman Hatfield Polytechnic, England Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (4): 745–746. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800076580 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Per…
Burmese Administrative Cycles
Centers, Symbols, and Hierarchies. Essays on the Classical States of Southeast Asia
Burmese Administrative Cycles
How Reliable is U Kala's Burmese Chronicle? Some New Comparisons
Rarely has a national historiographic tradition depended so heavily on a single author as the Burmese tradition has on U Kala. A native of Ava in Upper Burma, U Kala completed the so-called “Great Chronicle”, the Maha-ya-zawin-gyi , in the early eighteenth century. Beginning, logically enough, with the start of the current world cycle and the Buddhist version of ancient Indian history, this chronicle proceeded with ever increasing detail to narra…
Burmese Administrative Cycles. Anarchy and Conquest, c. 1580-1760
Pagan
Reinterpreting Burmese History
Problems of periodization have received but limited attention in Burmese historiography. Precolonial, that is to say, pre-nineteenth-century history, is said to be of a piece, without significant institutional or social transformations. Dynasties and rulers changed, of course, sometimes with stunning rapidity; but it is always assumed that these oscillations occurred within a static framework. Lamenting the failure of the early Kon-baung kings to…
Secular Trends in Burmese Economic History, c. 1350–1830, and their Implications for State Formation
Scholars of Burma cannot, in good conscience, invoke the usual justification — lack of adequate primary materials — for failing to construct an economic history of the precolonial era. By comparison with Siam, Cambodia, the Malay principalities, or indeed any Indianized Southeast Asian society with the possible exception of Java, Burma offers a uniquely continuous and voluminous array of documents bearing on patterns of cultivation, monetization,…
Abu-Lughod's Egalitarian World Order. A Review Article
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Local Integration and Eurasian Analogies
The historiography of precolonial Southeast Asia remains remarkably fragmented and inaccessible, even by the standards of that variegated region. We have a limited number of country monographs. But no systematic overview of Southeast Asian political or economic history has been attempted for all, or even part, of the period between the waning of the classical states in the fourteenth century and the onset of high colonialism in the early nineteen…
An Age of Commerce in Southeast Asia? Problems of Regional Coherence—A Review Article
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Mainland-Archipelagic Parallels and Contrasts, c.1750–1850
According to certain entirely valid criteria, the histories of mainland and archipelagic Southeast Asia ran parallel during the last century before the onset of high imperialism, roughly 1750 to 1850. 1 Along with the mainland, for example, most of the archipelago saw significant increases in overall population, economic specialization and external trade. In economically precocious districts throughout the region, the growing prominence and commu…
Transcending East-West Dichotomies
Although the question has assumed at least two principal forms, most scholars who would compare the history of Europe and Asia have long been absorbed with a single query: Why was Asia different
Beyond Binary Histories
Strange Parallels
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…
Some Comparative Thoughts on Premodern Southeast Asian Warfare
Between c. 1550 and 1650 discrepant political and economic contexts in the central Philippines, northeast Indonesia, and Burma produced distinctive military logics. In the pre-literate, localized societies of the Philippines and the interior of Indonesian islands, raiders sought heads for spiritual power and captives for ransom or labor, but along the coasts of northeast Indonesia wider religious and trade contacts and European-style guns bred a …
Excising the ‚Mon Paradigm’ from Burmese historiography
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Qing Dynasty and Its Neighbors
Peter C. Perdue's China Marches West argues that the Qing dynasty's ability to break through historical territorial barriers on China's northwestern frontier reflected greater Manchu familiarity with steppe culture than their Chinese predecessors had exhibited, reinforced by superior commercial, technical, and symbolic resources and the benefits of a Russian alliance. Qing imperial expansion illustrated patterns of territorial consolidation appar…
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