Michael Charney
Biographic Data
| ID | 5531554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Charney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Charney |
| SIGNATURE | CHARNEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Negotiation with a Reclusive Regime
The United States’ strategic pivot to the Asia Pacific has been interpreted as representing a kind of return for the Americans to Southeast Asia. While the U.S. relationship with many countries in the region has been historically strong (in Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia), Myanmar (Burma) has always seemed outside of the American orbit. In actuality, Myanmar has had a long historical relationship with the United State…
Southeast Asian Warfare, 1300-1900
This study of warfare in Southeast Asia between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries examines the chief aspects of warfare in the region. It begins with an examination of the cultural features that made warfare in the region unique, followed by a discussion of the main weapons used, and the two major sites of fighting, sieges and naval contests. Three chapters examine the role played by animals such as elephants and horses. The final two chapt…
A Reassessment of Hyperbolic Military Statistics in Some Early Modern Burmese Texts
Scholarly literature has not taken Burmese accounts of warfare seriously. Colonial historians viewed statistics in these sources as fanciful, exaggerated, and unreliable. Later scholars, both indigenous and western, have followed suit. They judge the chronicle accounts of Burmese warfare solely on the merits of the "objective" data. Much of this valuable material thus remains untouched or unconsidered in the secondary literature. This article sug…
Crisis and Reformation in a Maritime Kingdom of Southeast Asia
This study of the initial collapse, revival, and finally a resumption of decline in the seventeenth century of the maritime kingdom of Arakan (in western Burma) attempts to establish a special place for Arakan in the general historiography of the seventeenth-century crisis in Southeast Asia. The unusual experience of Arakan in the seventeenth century was in large part due to both the blockades by autonomous Portuguese freebooters in the first two…
Intestinal lactase deficiency in adult nonhuman primates
Crisis and Reformation in a Maritime Kingdom of Southeast Asia
This study of the initial collapse, revival, and finally a resumption of decline in the seventeenth century of the maritime kingdom of Arakan (in western Burma) attempts to establish a special place for Arakan in the general historiography of the seventeenth-century crisis in Southeast Asia. The unusual experience of Arakan in the seventeenth century was in large part due to both the blockades by autonomous Portuguese freebooters in the first two…
Intestinal lactase deficiency in adult nonhuman primates
Crisis and Reformation in a Maritime Kingdom of Southeast Asia
This study of the initial collapse, revival, and finally a resumption of decline in the seventeenth century of the maritime kingdom of Arakan (in western Burma) attempts to establish a special place for Arakan in the general historiography of the seventeenth-century crisis in Southeast Asia. The unusual experience of Arakan in the seventeenth century was in large part due to both the blockades by autonomous Portuguese freebooters in the first two…
A Reassessment of Hyperbolic Military Statistics in Some Early Modern Burmese Texts
Scholarly literature has not taken Burmese accounts of warfare seriously. Colonial historians viewed statistics in these sources as fanciful, exaggerated, and unreliable. Later scholars, both indigenous and western, have followed suit. They judge the chronicle accounts of Burmese warfare solely on the merits of the "objective" data. Much of this valuable material thus remains untouched or unconsidered in the secondary literature. This article sug…
Southeast Asian Warfare, 1300-1900
This study of warfare in Southeast Asia between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries examines the chief aspects of warfare in the region. It begins with an examination of the cultural features that made warfare in the region unique, followed by a discussion of the main weapons used, and the two major sites of fighting, sieges and naval contests. Three chapters examine the role played by animals such as elephants and horses. The final two chapt…
Negotiation with a Reclusive Regime
The United States’ strategic pivot to the Asia Pacific has been interpreted as representing a kind of return for the Americans to Southeast Asia. While the U.S. relationship with many countries in the region has been historically strong (in Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia), Myanmar (Burma) has always seemed outside of the American orbit. In actuality, Myanmar has had a long historical relationship with the United State…
History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (3 works) · Asian Studies and History (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works)