Strange Parallels : Southeast Asia in Global Context, C. 800-1830, Volume 1: Integration on the Mainland

Marvin B Becker Collegiate Professor of History and Professor of Southeast Asian History University of Michigan Victor Lieberman
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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,.

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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.