Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands: Southeast Asia in Global Context, C.800-1830
(Part of the Studies in Comparative World History Series)
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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,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521530369
ISBN13:9780521530361
Release Date:October 2009
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:976 Pages
Weight:2.95 lbs.
Dimensions:2.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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