{"product_id":"a-history-of-southeast-asia-9781118513002","title":"A History of Southeast Asia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilizations and religious patterns up to the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Among the book’s many virtues is Reid’s ability to break down the two thousand years he had to cover in order to guide the reader through space and time. ...Written in a straightforward, no-nonsense style, the book will be accessible to many, with judiciously chosen quotations to enliven the story.\"   (\u003ci\u003eAustralian Institute of International Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 November 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Understanding the region is therefore not just a matter of intellectual curiosity but also of considerable topical importance. Despite its textbook-like appearance, History\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis eminently readable. It succeeds at both providing a broad-brush overview of this complex region, presenting it from within, identifying and tracing major themes, while at the same time delivering a wealth of fascinating and intriguing detail.”  (\u003ci\u003eAsian Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, 25 November 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Reid’s comprehensive survey covers all of the major societies and many of the minor ones from Burma to the Philippines throughout the centuries. The thematic approach, interpretative insights, useful bibliography, and almost encyclopaedic wealth of information will make Reid’s History of Southeast Asia an exceptionally valuable, even indispensable, resource and reference book for other scholars… this book is a splendid contribution that can and should be read and discussed with interest by scholars and teachers of Southeast Asian studies as well as world and Eurasian history.” (\u003ci\u003eAsian Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A splendid contribution that can and should be read and discussed with interest by scholars and teachers of Southeast Asian studies as well as world and Eurasian history.\" - Craig A. Lockard, \u003ci\u003eAsian History Review\u003c\/i\u003e no. 41 (Nov. 2016, pp.167-8)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Maps xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editor’s Preface xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary xxii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xxv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 People in the Humid Tropics 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenign Climate, Dangerous Environment 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForests, Water, and People 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy a Low but Diverse Population? 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgriculture and Modern Language Families 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rice Revolution and Population Concentration 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Agricultural Basis of State and Society 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFood and Clothes 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen and Men 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNot China, not India 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Buddha and Shiva Below the Winds 30\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDebates about Indic States 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBronze, Iron, and Earthenware in the Archaeological Record 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Buddhist Ecumene and Sanskritization 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShiva and \u003ci\u003eNagara \u003c\/i\u003ein the “Charter Era,” 900–1300 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAustronesian Gateway Ports – the \u003ci\u003eNegeri \u003c\/i\u003e45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDai Viet and the Border with China 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Stateless Majority in the Charter Era 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThirteenth\/Fourteenth‐Century Crisis 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Trade and Its Networks 57\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLand and Sea Routes 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpecialized Production 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntegration of the Asian Maritime Markets 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAustronesian and Indian Pioneers 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe East Asian Trading System of 1280–1500 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Islamic Network 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Europeans 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Cities and Production for the World, 1490–1640 74\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoutheast Asia’s “Age of Commerce” 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrops for the World Market 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShips and Traders 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCities as Centers of Innovation 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrade, Guns, and New State Forms 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAsian Commercial Organization 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Religious Revolution and Early Modernity, 1350–1630 96\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoutheast Asian Religion 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheravada Cosmopolis and the Mainland States 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIslamic Beginnings: Traders and Mystics 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolarizations of the First Global War, 1530–1610 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRival Universalisms 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePluralities, Religious Boundaries, and the “Highland Savage” 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Asian European Encounters, 1509–1688 120\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Euro‐Chinese Cities 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen as Cultural Mediators 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Hybridities 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIslam’s “Age of Discovery” 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoutheast Asian Enlightenments – Makassar and Ayutthaya 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGunpowder Kings as an Early Modern Form 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century 142\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Great Divergence Debate 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoutheast Asians Lose the Profits of Long‐Distance Trade 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal Climate and Local Crises 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Consequences of the Crisis 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Vernacular Identities, 1660–1820 157\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEighteenth‐Century Consolidation 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligious Syncretism and Localization 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerformance in Palace, Pagoda, and Village 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory, Myth, and Identity 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsolidation and its Limitations 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Expansion of the Sinicized World 177\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFifteenth‐Century Revolution in Dai Viet 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eViet Expansion, \u003ci\u003eNam Tien \u003c\/i\u003e179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCochin‐China’s Plural Southern Frontier 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Greater Viet Nam of the Nguyen 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Commercial Expansion of a “Chinese Century,” 1740–1840 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChinese on Southern Economic Frontiers 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Becoming a Tropical Plantation, 1780–1900 196\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePepper and Coffee 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommercialization of Staple Crops 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Monopolies: Opium and Tobacco 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJava’s Coerced Colonial Agriculture 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlantations and Haciendas 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMono‐crop Rice Economies of the Mainland Deltas 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePre‐colonial and Colonial Growth Compared 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies, 1820–1910 213\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSiam as “Civilized” Survivor 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKonbaung Burma – a Doomed Modernization 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHigh Confucian Fundamentalism – Nguyen Viet Nam 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Protected” \u003ci\u003eNegeri \u003c\/i\u003e227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMuslim Alternatives in Sumatra 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBali Apocalypse 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMobile “Big Men” in the Eastern Islands 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Last State Evaders 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Making States, 1824–1940 240\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropean Nationalisms and Demarcations 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Many to Two Polities in \u003ci\u003eNusantara \u003c\/i\u003e241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaximal Burma, Viable Siam 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWestphalia and the Middle Kingdom 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding State Infrastructures 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Many States in Indochina? 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthnic Construction in the New Sovereign Spaces 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStates, not Nations 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 Population, Peasantization, and Poverty, 1830–1940 261\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore People 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInvolution and Peasantization 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDual Economy and the Absent Bourgeoisie 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubordinating Women 268\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShared Poverty and Health Crises 272\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 Consuming Modernity, 1850–2000 276\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHousing for a Fragile Environment 276\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Evolution of Foods 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFish, Salt, and Meat 279\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStimulants and Drinks 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCloth and Clothing 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern Dress and Identity 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerformance, from Festival to Film 289\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 Progress and Modernity, 1900–1940 295\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Despair to Hope 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEducation and a New Elite 302\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVictory of the National Idea in the 1930s 306\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNegotiating the Maleness of Modernity 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16 Mid‐Twentieth‐Century Crisis, 1930–1954 319\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic Crisis 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJapanese Occupation 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1945 – the Revolutionary Moment 331\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndependence – Revolutionary or Negotiated? 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e17 The Military, Monarchy, and Marx: The Authoritarian Turn, 1950–1998 347\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemocracy’s Brief Springtime 347\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGuns Inherit the Revolutions 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDictatorship Philippine Style 358\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRemaking “Protected” Monarchies 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwilight of the Indochina Kings 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReinventing a Thai \u003ci\u003eDhammaraja \u003c\/i\u003e367\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunist Authoritarianism 370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e18 The Commercial Turnaround, 1965– 373\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic Growth at Last 373\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore Rice, Fewer Babies 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOpening the Command Economies 378\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGains and Losses 380\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDarker Costs – Environmental Degradation and Corruption 384\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e19 Making Nations, Making Minorities, 1945– 390\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe High Modernist Moment, 1945–1980 390\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEducation and National Identity 394\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePuritan Globalism 400\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoining an Integrated but Plural World 405\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e20 The Southeast Asian Region in the World 413\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Regional Idea 414\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal Comparisons 419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 431\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 436\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866373009751,"sku":"9781118513002","price":27.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118513002.jpg?v=1722278338","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-history-of-southeast-asia-9781118513002","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}