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Title: Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland : Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830 (Studies in Comparative World History) by Victor Lieberman, Michael Adas, Edmund Burke III, Philip D. Curtin ISBN: 0-521-80496-5 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 26 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Ambitious comparative history.
Comment: As the author explains, there are two different positions in historiography dealing with the European understanding of the world:
i)That stressing European exceptionalism (see e.g., David Landes's "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations"; [also -I think-, Angus Maddison, "The West and the Rest", forthcoming]); and
ii)another current insisting that contingency and structural constraints are the key variables (see, e.g. Kenneth Pomeranz's "The Great Divergence"; [also -I think- "The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation" by John M. Hobson, forthcoming])
Lieberman's book critiques the first approach, and contributes to strengthen the second by offering structured comparisons between Southeast Asia (region routinely omitted from world histories) and France, Russia, Japan and (more briefly) China and South Asia. In that sense, Volume One of this work focuses on sustained political and cultural integration in each of the three chief sectors of continental Southeast Asia. I would point out that the author not only explains what happened in this region, but why it happened (showing with opinions full of nuances the state of the art on this matter). Nevertheless, although the content is very interesting, the book often happens to be a tough reading; therefore I have rated the book as a 4 start book (content: 5 starts; pleasure of reading: 3 to 1).
Volume two (in principle to be published by the end of 2005 or early 2006) is to argue that (in terms of linear-cum-cyclic trajectories, chronology and dynamics) mainland Southeast Asia resembled much of Europe and Japan but diverged significantly from South Asia and island Southeast Asia.
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Title: Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680: The Lands Below the Winds by Anthony Reid ISBN: 0300047509 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680: : Expansion and Crisis by Anthony Reid ISBN: 0300065167 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Indianized States of Southeast Asia by G. Coedes ISBN: 082480368X Publisher: University of Hawaii Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1975 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation by Thongchai Winichakul ISBN: 0824819748 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Law and Colonial Cultures : Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 (Studies in Comparative World History) by Lauren Benton, Michael Adas, Edmund Burke III, Philip D. Curtin ISBN: 052100926X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 03 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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