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Titolo: |
New perspectives on the history and historiography of Southeast Asia : continuing explorations / / edited by Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin and Kenneth R. Hall
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Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
Disciplina: | 959.0072 |
Soggetto geografico: | Southeast Asia Historiography |
Southeast Asia History | |
Altri autori: |
Aung-ThwinMichael
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover; New Perspectives on the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia; Copyright Page; Contents; Maps, tables, figures and illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; 1. Introduction: Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin and Kenneth R. Hall; 2. John K. Whitmore's contribution to Vietnamese and Southeast Asian studies: Victor Lieberman; 3. A new/old look at "classical" and "post-classical" Southeast Asia/Burma: Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin; 4. Sojourning communities, ports-of-trade, and commercial networking in Southeast Asia's eastern regions, c. 1000-1400: Kenneth R. Hall |
5. Chinese-style gunpowder weapons in Southeast Asia: focusing on archeological evidence: Sun Laichen6. To catch a tiger: the suppression of the Yang Yinglong Miao uprising (1587-1600) as a case study in Ming military and borderlands history: Kenneth M. Swope; 7. Maritime subversions and socio-political formations in Vietnamese history: a look from the marginal center (mien Trung): Charles Wheeler; 8. "1620," a cautionary tale: Michael Vickery; 9. The imported book trade and Confucian learning in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Vietnam: Li Tana | |
10. Literacy in early seventeenth-century Northern Vietnam: Keith W. Taylor11. The limping monk and the deaf king: peasant politics, subaltern agency, and the postcolonial predicament in colonial Burma: Maitrii Aung-Thwin; 12. The myths of the Tet Offensive: Edwin E. Moïse; Bibliography; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 Southea |
Titolo autorizzato: | New perspectives on the history and historiography of Southeast Asia ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-136-81963-0 |
1-283-15140-5 | |
9786613151407 | |
1-136-81964-9 | |
0-203-83005-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910799918303321 |
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