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"--