{"product_id":"strange-parallels-volume-2-mainland-mirrors-europe-japan-china-south-asia-and-the-islands-southeast-asia-in-global-context-c-800-1830-hardback-9780521823524","title":"Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands; Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830 (Hardback) 9780521823524","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStrange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands\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\u003eBlending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks to rethink 1,000 years of Eurasian history.\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\"\u003e9780521823524, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 October 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e976 pages, 25 b\/w illus.  10 maps  1 table\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 5.1 x 15.2 cm, 1.46 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.' The 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\"\u003eBlending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a Eurasian-wide pattern whereby local isolates cohered to form ever larger, more stable, more complex political and cultural systems. With accelerating force, climatic, commercial, and military stimuli joined to produce patterns of linear-cum-cyclic construction that became remarkably synchronized even between regions that had no contact with one another. Yet this study also distinguishes between two zones of integration, one where indigenous groups remained in control and a second where agency gravitated to external conquest elites. Here, then, is a fundamentally original view of Eurasia during a 1,000-year period that speaks to both historians of individual regions and those interested in global trends.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. A far promontory: Southeast Asia and Eurasia\u003cbr\u003e 2. Varieties of European experience (I): the formation of Russia and France to c.1600\u003cbr\u003e 3. Varieties of European experience (II): a great acceleration, c.1600–1830\u003cbr\u003e 4. Creating Japan\u003cbr\u003e 5. Integration under expanding Inner Asian influence (I): China: a precocious and durable unity\u003cbr\u003e 6. Integration under expanding Inner Asian influence (II): South Asia: patterns intermediate between China and the protected zone\u003cbr\u003e 7. Locating the islands\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], General \u0026amp; world history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on General \u0026amp; world history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22General%20\u0026amp;%20world%20history%20%5BHBG%5D%22\"\u003eHBG\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":45913159205144,"sku":"9780521823524","price":119.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521823524i_c1c3dcc7-e9cb-431b-a492-1f0b4495cded.jpg?v=1691368416","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/strange-parallels-volume-2-mainland-mirrors-europe-japan-china-south-asia-and-the-islands-southeast-asia-in-global-context-c-800-1830-hardback-9780521823524","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}