Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680
Title | Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680 PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Reid |
Publisher | |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300047509 |
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In Search of Southeast Asia
Title | In Search of Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | David Joel Steinberg |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780824811105 |
Six contemporary historians trace the development of distinctive cultural, political, and social institutions in Southeast Asia
Brunei
Title | Brunei PDF eBook |
Author | Marie-Sybille de Vienne |
Publisher | NUS Press |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2015-03-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9971698188 |
Now an energy-rich sultanate, for centuries a important trading port in the South China Sea, Brunei has taken a different direction than its Persian Gulf peers. Immigration is restricted, and Brunei’s hydrocarbon wealth is invested conservatively, mostly outside the country. Today home to some 393,000 inhabitants and comprising 5,765 square kilometers in area, Brunei first appears in the historical record at the end of the 10th century. After the Spanish attack of 1578, Brunei struggled to regain and expand its control on coastal West Borneo and to remain within the trading networks of the South China Sea. It later fell under British sway, and a residency was established in 1906, but it took the discovery of oil in Seria in 1929 before the colonial power began to establish the bases of a modern state. Governed by an absolute monarchy, Bruneians today nonetheless enjoy a high level of social protection and rule of law. Ranking second (after Singapore) in Southeast Asia in terms of standards of living, the sultanate is implementing an Islamic penal code for the first time of its history. Focusing on Brunei’s political economy, history and geography, this book aims to understand the forces behind Brunei’s to-and-fro of tradition and modernisation.
Siam Mapped
Title | Siam Mapped PDF eBook |
Author | Thongchai Winichakul |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1997-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780824819743 |
This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped challenges much that has been written on Thai history because it demonstrates convincingly that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic.
Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680
Title | Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680 PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Reid |
Publisher | |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Southeast Asia |
ISBN | 9780300159455 |
A History of Ayutthaya
Title | A History of Ayutthaya PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Baker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2017-05-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107190762 |
The first full history of a great commercial and political center that rose in Asia over almost five centuries.
Strange Parallels
Title | Strange Parallels PDF eBook |
Author | Victor B. Lieberman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Southeast Asia |
ISBN | 9780511071751 |
This 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.--Publisher description.