Strange Parallels

Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830

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ID19907412
AuthorsVictor Lieberman (University of Michigan, corresponding author), Victor B Lieberman
Year2009
Publication date2009-10-30
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueStrange Parallels - Southeast Asia in Global Context, C. 800-1830 Vol. 2 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511816000
OpenAlexW2613050294
Open LibraryOL28954664M
ISBN9780511816000
LanguageEN
Citations received50

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

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · China · CONQUEST · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Parallels · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Southeast asia · Asian Studies and History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · asia · Historiography

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