Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, C. 800-1830, Volume 1: Integration on the Mainland (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521804967)

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: 0521804965
ISBN-13: 9780521804967
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/26/2003
Pages: 510
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.47w x 1.21d