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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA coherent and comprehensive narrative of the functioning and implications of regional and international economic developments on Southeast Asian social organization in the pre-modern era that has hitherto not been attempted. . . . An important contribution to the field of Southeast Asian studies as well as global history and international studies. * Journal Of Economic and Social History Of The Orient *
This book is a most valuable contribution, especially as it covers a period that few know well and that no one else is trying to synthesize into such an overall work. Hall not only provides a much-needed economic and political analysis of his own and others' scholarship on the varied parts of Asia, he puts it all—islands and mainland—into a thoughtful interpretive framework that advances our study of Southeast Asia considerably. -- John Whitmore, University of Michigan
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Trade and Statecraft in Early Southeast Asia Chapter 2: Early International Maritime Trade and Cultural Networking in the Southeast Asia Region, ca. 100–500 Chapter 3: Competition on the East Coast of the Mainland: Early Champa and Vietnam Political Economies Chapter 4: The Foundations of Indonesian Polity: Srivijaya and Java to the Early Tenth Century Chapter 5: Structural Change in the Javanese Community, ca. 900–1300 Chapter 6: The Temple-Based Mainland Political Economies of Angkor Cambodia and Pagan Burma, ca. 889–1300 Chapter 7: Transitions in the Southeast Asian Mainland Commercial Realm, ca. 900–1500 Chapter 8: Maritime Trade and Community Development in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Java Chapter 9: Upstream and Downstream Unification and the Changing Sense of Community in Southeast Asia's Fifteenth-Century Maritime Port-Polities Chapter 10: Maritime Trade and State Development, ca. 1250–1500 References
