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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781630203321

Autore

Hall Kenneth R

Titolo

A history of early Southeast Asia [[electronic resource] ] : maritime trade and societal development, 100-1500 / / Kenneth R. Hall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011

ISBN

1-283-28360-3

9786613283603

0-7425-6762-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (651 p.)

Disciplina

959

959.01

Soggetti

Southeast Asia History

Southeast Asia Commerce History To 1500

Southeast Asia Commerce Social aspects History To 1500

Southeast Asia Civilization To 1500

Southeast Asia History To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Figures and Maps; Preface; 1 Trade and Statecraft in Early Southeast Asia; 2 Early International Maritime Trade and Cultural Networking in the Southeast; 3 Competition on the East Coast of the Mainland; 4 The Foundations of Indonesian Polity; 5 Structural Change in the Javanese Community, ca. 900-1300; 6 The Temple-Based Mainland Political Economies of Angkor Cambodia and Pagan Burma, ca. 889-1300; 7 Transitions in the Southeast Asian Mainland Commercial Realm, ca. 900-1500; 8 Maritime Trade and Community Development in Fourteenth-and Fifteenth-Century Java

9 Upstream and Downstream Unification and the Changing Sense of Community in Southeast Asia's Fifteenth-Century Maritime Port-Polities10 Maritime Trade and State Development, ca. 1250-1500; Abbreviations Used in References and in Citations; References; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This comprehensive history provides a fresh interpretation of Southeast Asia from 100 to 1500, when major social and economic developments



foundational to modern societies took place on the mainland (Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) and the island world (Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines). Incorporating the latest archaeological evidence and international scholarship, Kenneth R. Hall enlarges upon prior histories of early Southeast Asia that did not venture beyond 1400, extending the study of the region to the Portuguese seizure of Melaka in 1511. Written for a wide audience of no