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A history of Southeast Asia : critical crossroads / Anthony Reid.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Blackwell history of the worldPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley/Blackwell, 2015Description: xxv, 450 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780631179610 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781118513002 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959 REI
Contents:
People in the humid tropics -- Buddha and Shiva below the winds -- Trade and its networks -- Cities and production for the world, 1490-1640 -- Religious revolution and early modernity, 1350-1630 -- Asian European encounters, 1509-1688 -- Seventeenth century crisis -- Vernacular identities, 1660-1820 -- Expansion of the sinicized world -- Becoming a tropical plantation, 1780-1900 -- The last stand of Asian autonomies, 1830-1910 -- Making states, 1824-1940 -- Population, peasantization and poverty, 1830-1940 -- Consuming modernity, 1900-2000 -- Progress, education, nationalism, 1900-40 -- Mid-twentieth century crisis, 1930-54 -- Military, monarchy, Marx: the authoritarian turn, 1950- -- The commercial turnaround, 1965- -- Making nations, making minorities, 1945- -- A region in the world.
Summary: "Incorporates environmental, social, economic, and gender issues to tell a multi-dimensional story of Southeast Asian history from earliest times to the present"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-435) and index.

People in the humid tropics -- Buddha and Shiva below the winds -- Trade and its networks -- Cities and production for the world, 1490-1640 -- Religious revolution and early modernity, 1350-1630 -- Asian European encounters, 1509-1688 -- Seventeenth century crisis -- Vernacular identities, 1660-1820 -- Expansion of the sinicized world -- Becoming a tropical plantation, 1780-1900 -- The last stand of Asian autonomies, 1830-1910 -- Making states, 1824-1940 -- Population, peasantization and poverty, 1830-1940 -- Consuming modernity, 1900-2000 -- Progress, education, nationalism, 1900-40 -- Mid-twentieth century crisis, 1930-54 -- Military, monarchy, Marx: the authoritarian turn, 1950- -- The commercial turnaround, 1965- -- Making nations, making minorities, 1945- -- A region in the world.

"Incorporates environmental, social, economic, and gender issues to tell a multi-dimensional story of Southeast Asian history from earliest times to the present"-- Provided by publisher.

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