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Lieberman, Victor B. - Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands

Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands : Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830

By: Lieberman, Victor B. (Author). Cambridge University Press. Published: 00/01/2010. Audience Guide: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly.
Hardback. Sourced from U.S.A.

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Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a Eurasian-wide pattern whereby local isolates cohered to form ever larger, more stable, more complex political and cultural systems. With accelerating force, climatic, commercial, and military stimuli joined to produce patterns of linear-cum-cyclic construction that became remarkably synchronized even between regions that had no contact with one another. Yet this study also distinguishes between two zones of integration, one where indigenous groups remained in control and a second where agency gravitated to external conquest elites. Here, then, is a fundamentally original view of Eurasia during a 1,000-year period that speaks to both historians of individual regions and those interested in global trends.

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ISBN10/13: 0521823528/9780521823524
TITLE: Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands
CONTRIBUTORS: Lieberman, Victor B. (Author)
IMPRINT: Cambridge University Press
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 00/01/2010
SUBJECT: History, Asian & Middle Eastern
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 162mm x 235mm (Spine: 55mm)
PAGES: 976
AUDIENCE GUIDE: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
ILLUSTRATIONS: 25 b/w illus. 10 maps 1 table
CONTENTS:

1. A far promontory: Southeast Asia and Eurasia; 2. Varieties of European experience (I): the formation of Russia and France to c. 1600; 3. Varieties of European experience (II): a great acceleration, c. 1600-1830; 4. Creating Japan; 5. Integration under expanding Inner Asian influence (I): China: a precocious and durable unity; 6. Integration under expanding Inner Asian influence (II): South Asia: patterns intermediate between China and the protected zone; 7. Locating the islands; Conclusion.