Integration on the mainland
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Integration on the mainland
（Studies in comparative world history, . Strange parallels : Southeast Asia in global context,
Cambridge University Press, 2003
- : hardback
- : pbk
Available at 41 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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