Strange Parallels Southeast Asia in Global Context, C. 800-1830 Vol. 1

In an ambitious effort to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, this study attempts to connect Southeast Asian 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...
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In an ambitious effort to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, this study attempts to connect Southeast Asian 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.