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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.

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• Full title: Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland
• Subtitle: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800-1830
• Author: Victor B. Lieberman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 510
• EAN: 9780521800860
• ISBN: 0521800862
• ID: 02043862
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 822 g
• Dimensions: 160 × 235 × 38 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. June 2003

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