The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia

Author: David P. Chandler
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824828905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584

Book Description
The modern states of Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, and East Timor were once a tapestry of kingdoms, colonies, and smaller polities linked by sporadic trade and occasional war. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, the United States and several European powers had come to control almost the entire region—only to depart dramatically in the decades following World War II. The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia offers a new and up-to-date perspective on this complex region. Although it does not neglect nation-building (the central theme of its popular and long-lived predecessor, In Search of Southeast Asia), the present work focuses on economic and social history, gender, and ecology. It describes the long-term impact of global forces on the region and traces the spread and interplay of capitalism, nationalism, and socialism. It acknowledges that modernization has produced substantial gains in such areas as life expectancy and education but has also spread dislocation and misery. Organizationally, the book shifts between thematic chapters that describe social, economic, and cultural change, and "country" chapters emphasizing developments within specific areas. Enhanced by scores of illustrations, The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia will establish a new standard for the history of this dynamic and radically transformed region of the world. Contributors: David Chandler, Norman G. Owen, William R. Roff, David Joel Steinberg, Jean Gelman Taylor, Robert H. Taylor, Alexander Woodside, David K. Wyatt.

A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830

Author: Barbara Watson Andaya
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521889928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379

Book Description
Written by two expert and highly esteemed authors, this is the much-anticipated textbook on the early modern history of Southeast Asia.

In Search of Southeast Asia

Author: David Joel Steinberg
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824811105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612

Book Description
Six contemporary historians trace the development of distinctive cultural, political, and social institutions in Southeast Asia

Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia

Author: Anthony Reid
Publisher: Silkworm Books
ISBN: 1630414816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
In this volume, Anthony Reid positions Southeast Asia on the stage of world history. He argues that the region not only had a historical character of its own, but that it played a crucial role in shaping the modern world. Southeast Asia’s interaction with the forces uniting and transforming the world is explored through chapters focusing on Islamization; Chinese, Siamese, Cham and Javanese trade; Makasar’s modernizing moment; and slavery. The last three chapters examine from different perspectives how this interaction of relative equality shifted to one of an impoverished, “third world” region exposed to European colonial power.

New Perspectives on the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia

Author: Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136819630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495

Book Description
Using a unique "old–new" treatment, this book presents new perspectives on several important topics in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Based on original, primary research, it reinterprets and revises several long-held conventional views in the field, covering the period from the "classical" age to the twentieth century. Chapters share the approach to Southeast Asian history and historiography: namely, giving "agency" to Southeast Asia in all research, analysis, writing, and interpretation. The book honours John K. Whitmore, a senior historian in the field of Southeast Asian history today, by demonstrating the scope and breadth of the scholar’s influence on two generations of historians trained in the West. In addition to providing new information and insights on the field of Southeast Asia, this book stimulates new debate on conventional ideas, evidence, and approaches to its teaching, research, and understanding. It addresses, and in many cases, revises specific, critically important topics in Southeast Asian history on which much conventional knowledge of Southeast Asia has long been based. It is of interest to scholars of Southeast Asian Studies, as well as Asian History.

A History of Modern Southeast Asia

Author: John Sturgus Bastin
Publisher: Sydney : Prentice-Hall of Australia
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description

Contemporary Southeast Asia

Author: Mark Beeson
Publisher: Palgrave
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
This thoroughly updated new edition of an already popular text brings together specially-commissioned chapters by leading authorities, rigorously edited to ensure systematic coverage. It provides students with an accessible and up-to-date thematically-structured comparative introduction to Southeast Asia today.

Cities, Transport and Communications

Author: H. Dick
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023059994X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 415

Book Description
This book shows the impact of globalization on Southeast Asia, which over a few decades has evolved from a loose set of war-torn ex-colonies to being a centre of global manufacturing. Focusing on cities, the authors explain the emergence of modern Southeast Asia and its increasing integration into the world economy by showing how technological change, economic development and politics have transformed the flows of goods, people and information.

Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1350-1800

Author: Ooi Keat Gin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317559185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
This book presents extensive new research findings on and new thinking about Southeast Asia in this interesting, richly diverse, but much understudied period. It examines the wide and well-developed trading networks, explores the different kinds of regimes and the nature of power and security, considers urban growth, international relations and the beginnings of European involvement with the region, and discusses religious factors, in particular the spread and impact of Christianity. One key theme of the book is the consideration of how well-developed Southeast Asia was before the onset of European involvement, and, how, during the peak of the commercial boom in the 1500s and 1600s, many polities in Southeast Asia were not far behind Europe in terms of socio-economic progress and attainments.

Blood and Silk

Author: Michael Vatikiotis
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1474602029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363

Book Description
Why are Southeast Asia's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved violent insurgencies? How do deepening religious divisions in Indonesia and Malaysia, and China's growing influence, affect the region and the rest of the world? Thought-provoking and eye-opening, Blood and Silk is an accessible, personal look at modern Southeast Asia, written by one of the region's most experienced outside observers. This is a first-hand account of what it's like to sit at the table with deadly Thai Muslim insurgents, mediate between warring clans in the Southern Philippines and console the victims of political violence in Indonesia - all in an effort to negotiate peace, and understand the reasons behind endemic violence.