Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830 (Studies in Comparative World History)

510 Pages·2003·4.02 MB·English

by  Victor Lieberman

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StrangeParallels
Volume1:IntegrationoftheMainland
SoutheastAsiainGlobalContext,c.800–1830
Thisisthefirstvolumeinanambitioustwo-volumestudyofathou-
sand years of Southeast Asian political, cultural, and economic his-
tory. The study has two goals: to overcome the fragmentation of
earlySoutheastAsianhistoriographyandforthefirsttimetoconnect
Southeast Asian to world history in serious and sustained fashion.
A blend of detailed archival work and secondary research, of local
inquiry and large-scale theorization, Volume 1 argues that each of
mainlandSoutheastAsia’sthreegreatlowlandcorridorsexperienced
apatternofacceleratingintegrationpunctuatedbyrecurrentcollapse.
Thesetrajectorieswerebroadlysynchronizednotonlybetweencor-
ridors,but,mostcuriously,betweenthemainlandandothersectors
ofEurasia.Thisvolumedescribesthenatureofconsolidation–which
wassimultaneouslyterritorial,religious,andethnic–anddissectsthe
fluidinterplayofendogenousandexternalpressuresencouragingthat
trend.Volume2willexploreparallelswithRussia,France,andJapan
c. 800–1830 and will explain why in yet other areas of Eurasia frag-
mentation,notintegration,becamethenorm.Hereisafundamentally
originalanalysisofbothSoutheastAsiaandthepremodernworld.
VictorLiebermanisProfessorofSoutheastAsianHistoryattheUni-
versityofMichigan.HispublicationsincludeBurmeseAdministrative
Cycles: Anarchy and Conquest, c. 1580–1760, which won the Harry J.
BendaPrizefromtheAssociationforAsianStudies,andaneditedcol-
lection,BeyondBinaryHistories:Re-imaginingEurasiatoc.1830.Papers
in that collection originally appeared as a special edition of Modern
AsianStudiesdevotedtoanexaminationofLieberman’sscholarship.

studies in comparative world history
Editors
MichaelAdas,RutgersUniversity
PhilipD.Curtin,TheJohnsHopkinsUniversity
OtherBooksintheSeries
MichaelAdas,ProphetsofRebellion:MillenarianProtestMovementsAgainst
theEuropeanColonialOrder(1979)
PhilipD.Curtin,Cross-CulturalTradeinWorldHistory(1984)
LeoSpitzer,LivesinBetween:AssimilationandMarginalityinAustria,Brazil,
andWestAfrica,1780–1945(1989)
PhilipD.Curtin,TheRiseandFallofthePlantationComplex:Essaysin
AtlanticHistory(1990)
JohnThornton,AfricaandAfricansintheFormationoftheAtlanticWorld,
1400–1680(1992)
MarshallG.S.HodgsonandEdmundBurkeIII(ed.),RethinkingWorld
History(1993)
DavidNorthrup,IndenturedLaborintheAgeofImperialism,1834–1922(1995)
LaurenBenton,LawandColonialCultures:LegalRegimesinWorldHistory,
1400–1900(2002)

Strange Parallels
Volume 1
Integration of the Mainland
Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800–1830
victor lieberman
UniversityofMichigan
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