Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830 (Studies in Comparative World History) PDF
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This page intentionally left blank StrangeParallels Volume1:IntegrationoftheMainland SoutheastAsiainGlobalContext,c.800–1830 Thisisthefirstvolumeinanambitioustwo-volumestudyofathou- sand years of Southeast Asian political, cultural, and economic his- tory. The study has two goals: to overcome the fragmentation of earlySoutheastAsianhistoriographyandforthefirsttimetoconnect Southeast Asian to world history in serious and sustained fashion. A blend of detailed archival work and secondary research, of local inquiry and large-scale theorization, Volume 1 argues that each of mainlandSoutheastAsia’sthreegreatlowlandcorridorsexperienced apatternofacceleratingintegrationpunctuatedbyrecurrentcollapse. Thesetrajectorieswerebroadlysynchronizednotonlybetweencor- ridors,but,mostcuriously,betweenthemainlandandothersectors ofEurasia.Thisvolumedescribesthenatureofconsolidation–which wassimultaneouslyterritorial,religious,andethnic–anddissectsthe fluidinterplayofendogenousandexternalpressuresencouragingthat trend.Volume2willexploreparallelswithRussia,France,andJapan c. 800–1830 and will explain why in yet other areas of Eurasia frag- mentation,notintegration,becamethenorm.Hereisafundamentally originalanalysisofbothSoutheastAsiaandthepremodernworld. VictorLiebermanisProfessorofSoutheastAsianHistoryattheUni- versityofMichigan.HispublicationsincludeBurmeseAdministrative Cycles: Anarchy and Conquest, c. 1580–1760, which won the Harry J. BendaPrizefromtheAssociationforAsianStudies,andaneditedcol- lection,BeyondBinaryHistories:Re-imaginingEurasiatoc.1830.Papers in that collection originally appeared as a special edition of Modern AsianStudiesdevotedtoanexaminationofLieberman’sscholarship. studies in comparative world history Editors MichaelAdas,RutgersUniversity PhilipD.Curtin,TheJohnsHopkinsUniversity OtherBooksintheSeries MichaelAdas,ProphetsofRebellion:MillenarianProtestMovementsAgainst theEuropeanColonialOrder(1979) PhilipD.Curtin,Cross-CulturalTradeinWorldHistory(1984) LeoSpitzer,LivesinBetween:AssimilationandMarginalityinAustria,Brazil, andWestAfrica,1780–1945(1989) PhilipD.Curtin,TheRiseandFallofthePlantationComplex:Essaysin AtlanticHistory(1990) JohnThornton,AfricaandAfricansintheFormationoftheAtlanticWorld, 1400–1680(1992) MarshallG.S.HodgsonandEdmundBurkeIII(ed.),RethinkingWorld History(1993) DavidNorthrup,IndenturedLaborintheAgeofImperialism,1834–1922(1995) LaurenBenton,LawandColonialCultures:LegalRegimesinWorldHistory, 1400–1900(2002) Strange Parallels Volume 1 Integration of the Mainland Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800–1830 victor lieberman UniversityofMichigan Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521800860 © Victor Lieberman 2003 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2003 - isbn-13 978-0-511-07175-1 eBook (EBL) - isbn-10 0-511-07175-2 eBook (EBL) - isbn-13 978-0-521-80086-0 hardback - isbn-10 0-521-80086-2 hardback isbn--13 978-0-521-80496-7 paperback - isbn-10 0-521-80496-5 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of s for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. ToSharon,andtothememoryofmymotherandfather
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