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Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland : Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830 (Studies in Comparative World History)
Strange Parallels Volume 1 Integration on the Mainland Southeast Asia in Global Context c 8001830 - Studies in Comparative World History Author:Victor Lieberman In an ambitious effort to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, this study connects Southeast Asia to world history. Victor Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast Asia's great lowland corridors experienced a pattern of accelerating integration punctuated by recurrent collapse... more ». These trajectories were synchronized not only between corridors, but most curiously, between the mainland as a whole, much of Europe, and other sectors of Eurasia. Lieberman describes in detail the nature of mainland consolidation and dissects the mix of endogenous and external factors responsible.« less