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Book SynopsisExplores the role of technology in the larger political and economic fabric of Southeast Asia. In Technology in Southeast Asian History, Suzanne Moon explores the profound entanglement of technology with Southeast Asian politics, social life, economics, and culture over its long history. Moon offers a unique framework for understanding the place of technology in this region and its pivotal role in the emergence of the modern technological world. Synthesizing scholarship from the fields of history, archaeology, and anthropology, Moon examines and links technological stories from prehistory to the mid-twentieth century. She uses analytics in the history of technologysuch as circulation, coproduction, and assemblageto highlight the processes and evolving patterns of technological dynamism that characterize the region. Drawing on research focused on specific technologies, including temple construction, rice agriculture, weaving, and shipbuilding, Moon investigates the interconnectednes
Table of ContentsList of Figures
Introduction: Technology in the Formation of a Region
1. The Human Settlement of Southeast Asia
2. Trade and Agriculture: Technological Change and Emerging Urban Centers
3. Early Modern Commerce and Sociotechnical Resilience: Textile
4. Localizing Foreign Technology: Mining and Shipbuilding in the Early Modern
5. Intensification and Expansion: Agriculture in Flux after 1400
6. Technology and Cultures of Conflict in the Early Modern Period
7. Scaling up Warfare: Technology and the Warring State
8. Technology, Empire, and Nationalism
Conclusion: Technology in the History of Southeast Asia; Southeast Asia in the History of Technology
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Bibliography
Notes
Index
