Strange Parallels (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521800860)

In an ambitious effort to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, this study connects Southeast Asia to world history. Victor 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. Lieberman describes in detail the nature of mainland consolidation and dissects the mix of endogenous and external factors responsible.

Author: Victor Lieberman
ISBN-10: 0521800862
ISBN-13: 9780521800860
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/09/2003
Pages: 510
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.40d