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基本説明
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.
Full Description
This ambitious work has two novel goals: to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, and to connect Southeast Asian to world history. Combining careful local research with wide-ranging theory 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. 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. He describes in detail the nature of mainland consolidation - which was simultaneously territorial, religious, ethnic, and commercial - and dissects the mix of endogenous and external factors responsible. Here, then, is a fundamentally original analysis not only of Southeast Asia, but of the pre-modern world.
Contents
1. Introduction: the ends of the earth: Part A. Rethinking Southeast Asia; Part B. Implications for Eurasia; 2. One basin, two poles: the western mainland and the formation of Burma; 3. A stable, maritime consolidation: the central mainland; 4. 'The least coherent territory in the world': Vietnam and the eastern mainland; Conclusion.