A history of Southeast Asia critical crossroads /

Reid, Anthony, 1939-,

A history of Southeast Asia critical crossroads / [Book] : Anthony Reid. - xxv, 450 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - The Blackwell history of the world .

Includes bibliographical references 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"--

All.

9780631179610 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781118513002 (paperback : alk. paper)

2014040544


Southeast Asia--History.
Southeast Asia--Foreign relations.

DS525 / .R45 2015

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