{"product_id":"strange-parallels-volume-1-integration-on-the-mainland-southeast-asia-in-global-context-c-800-1830-hardback-9780521800860","title":"Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland; Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830 (Hardback) 9780521800860","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStrange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSoutheast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA novel analysis that looks at early Southeast Asian history in terms of integration and collapse.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVictor Lieberman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521800860, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 June 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e510 pages, 8 b\/w illus.  7 maps\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.5 x 3.6 cm, 0.79 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Victor Lieberman's two-volume opus is the most important work of history produced so far this century … It is no exaggeration to say that Strange Parallels is a paradigmatic work. It will inform our understanding of human history for generations to come.' American Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction: the ends of the earth: Part A. Rethinking Southeast Asia\u003cbr\u003e Part B. Implications for Eurasia\u003cbr\u003e 2. One basin, two poles: the western mainland and the formation of Burma\u003cbr\u003e 3. A stable, maritime consolidation: the central mainland\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'The least coherent territory in the world': Vietnam and the eastern mainland\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Asian history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Asian history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Asian%20history%20%5BHBJF%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265102729496,"sku":"9780521800860","price":76.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521804967.jpg?v=1692019577","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/strange-parallels-volume-1-integration-on-the-mainland-southeast-asia-in-global-context-c-800-1830-hardback-9780521800860","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}