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A History of Southeast Asia


A History of Southeast Asia

Critical Crossroads
Blackwell History of the World 1. Aufl.

von: Anthony Reid

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Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 03.03.2015
ISBN/EAN: 9781118512951
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 480

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<b>2016 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Textbook in the Humanities</b> <p><i>A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads</i> presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilizations and religious patterns up to the present day.</p> <ul> <li>Incorporates environmental, social, economic, and gender issues to tell a multi-dimensional story of Southeast Asian history from earliest times to the present</li> <li>Argues that while the region remains a highly diverse mix of religions, ethnicities, and political systems, it demands more attention for how it manages such diversity while being receptive to new ideas and technologies</li> <li>Demonstrates how Southeast Asia can offer alternatives to state-centric models of history more broadly</li> </ul> <p><b>Part of <i>The Blackwell History of the World Series</i></b></p> <p>The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.</p>
<p>List of Tables xi</p> <p>List of Maps xii</p> <p>List of Illustrations xiii</p> <p>Series Editor’s Preface xiv</p> <p>Preface xvii</p> <p>Glossary xxii</p> <p>Abbreviations xxv</p> <p><b>1 People in the Humid Tropics 1</b></p> <p>Benign Climate, Dangerous Environment 1</p> <p>Forests, Water, and People 4</p> <p>Why a Low but Diverse Population? 6</p> <p>Agriculture and Modern Language Families 10</p> <p>The Rice Revolution and Population Concentration 13</p> <p>The Agricultural Basis of State and Society 16</p> <p>Food and Clothes 18</p> <p>Women and Men 21</p> <p>Not China, not India 26</p> <p><b>2 Buddha and Shiva Below the Winds 30</b></p> <p>Debates about Indic States 30</p> <p>Bronze, Iron, and Earthenware in the Archaeological Record 32</p> <p>The Buddhist Ecumene and Sanskritization 34</p> <p>Shiva and <i>Nagara </i>in the “Charter Era,” 900–1300 39</p> <p>Austronesian Gateway Ports – the <i>Negeri </i>45</p> <p>Dai Viet and the Border with China 47</p> <p>The Stateless Majority in the Charter Era 49</p> <p>Thirteenth/Fourteenth‐Century Crisis 53</p> <p><b>3 Trade and Its Networks 57</b></p> <p>Land and Sea Routes 57</p> <p>Specialized Production 59</p> <p>Integration of the Asian Maritime Markets 62</p> <p>Austronesian and Indian Pioneers 63</p> <p>The East Asian Trading System of 1280–1500 65</p> <p>The Islamic Network 69</p> <p>The Europeans 71</p> <p><b>4 Cities and Production for the World, 1490–1640 74</b></p> <p>Southeast Asia’s “Age of Commerce” 74</p> <p>Crops for the World Market 76</p> <p>Ships and Traders 80</p> <p>Cities as Centers of Innovation 81</p> <p>Trade, Guns, and New State Forms 85</p> <p>Asian Commercial Organization 91</p> <p><b>5 Religious Revolution and Early Modernity, 1350–1630 96</b></p> <p>Southeast Asian Religion 97</p> <p>Theravada Cosmopolis and the Mainland States 98</p> <p>Islamic Beginnings: Traders and Mystics 101</p> <p>Polarizations of the First Global War, 1530–1610 106</p> <p>Rival Universalisms 111</p> <p>Pluralities, Religious Boundaries, and the “Highland Savage” 114</p> <p><b>6 Asian European Encounters, 1509–1688 120</b></p> <p>The Euro‐Chinese Cities 120</p> <p>Women as Cultural Mediators 125</p> <p>Cultural Hybridities 130</p> <p>Islam’s “Age of Discovery” 133</p> <p>Southeast Asian Enlightenments – Makassar and Ayutthaya 135</p> <p>Gunpowder Kings as an Early Modern Form 139</p> <p><b>7 The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century 142</b></p> <p>The Great Divergence Debate 142</p> <p>Southeast Asians Lose the Profits of Long‐Distance Trade 144</p> <p>Global Climate and Local Crises 149</p> <p>Political Consequences of the Crisis 152</p> <p><b>8 Vernacular Identities, 1660–1820 157</b></p> <p>Eighteenth‐Century Consolidation 157</p> <p>Religious Syncretism and Localization 158</p> <p>Performance in Palace, Pagoda, and Village 167</p> <p>History, Myth, and Identity 172</p> <p>Consolidation and its Limitations 175</p> <p><b>9 Expansion of the Sinicized World 177</b></p> <p>Fifteenth‐Century Revolution in Dai Viet 177</p> <p>Viet Expansion, <i>Nam Tien </i>179</p> <p>Cochin‐China’s Plural Southern Frontier 183</p> <p>The Greater Viet Nam of the Nguyen 185</p> <p>The Commercial Expansion of a “Chinese Century,” 1740–1840 188</p> <p>Chinese on Southern Economic Frontiers 191</p> <p><b>10 Becoming a Tropical Plantation, 1780–1900 196</b></p> <p>Pepper and Coffee 197</p> <p>Commercialization of Staple Crops 198</p> <p>The New Monopolies: Opium and Tobacco 200</p> <p>Java’s Coerced Colonial Agriculture 204</p> <p>Plantations and Haciendas 207</p> <p>Mono‐crop Rice Economies of the Mainland Deltas 209</p> <p>Pre‐colonial and Colonial Growth Compared 211</p> <p><b>11 The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies, 1820–1910 213</b></p> <p>Siam as “Civilized” Survivor 214</p> <p>Konbaung Burma – a Doomed Modernization 219</p> <p>High Confucian Fundamentalism – Nguyen Viet Nam 224</p> <p>“Protected” <i>Negeri </i>227</p> <p>Muslim Alternatives in Sumatra 230</p> <p>Bali Apocalypse 233</p> <p>Mobile “Big Men” in the Eastern Islands 235</p> <p>The Last State Evaders 237</p> <p><b>12 Making States, 1824–1940 240</b></p> <p>European Nationalisms and Demarcations 240</p> <p>From Many to Two Polities in <i>Nusantara </i>241</p> <p>Maximal Burma, Viable Siam 246</p> <p>Westphalia and the Middle Kingdom 250</p> <p>Building State Infrastructures 251</p> <p>How Many States in Indochina? 255</p> <p>Ethnic Construction in the New Sovereign Spaces 256</p> <p>States, not Nations 260</p> <p><b>13 Population, Peasantization, and Poverty, 1830–1940 261</b></p> <p>More People 261</p> <p>Involution and Peasantization 263</p> <p>Dual Economy and the Absent Bourgeoisie 266</p> <p>Subordinating Women 268</p> <p>Shared Poverty and Health Crises 272</p> <p><b>14 Consuming Modernity, 1850–2000 276</b></p> <p>Housing for a Fragile Environment 276</p> <p>The Evolution of Foods 278</p> <p>Fish, Salt, and Meat 279</p> <p>Stimulants and Drinks 281</p> <p>Cloth and Clothing 284</p> <p>Modern Dress and Identity 286</p> <p>Performance, from Festival to Film 289</p> <p><b>15 Progress and Modernity, 1900–1940 295</b></p> <p>From Despair to Hope 296</p> <p>Education and a New Elite 302</p> <p>Victory of the National Idea in the 1930s 306</p> <p>Negotiating the Maleness of Modernity 314</p> <p><b>16 Mid‐Twentieth‐Century Crisis, 1930–1954 319</b></p> <p>Economic Crisis 319</p> <p>Japanese Occupation 323</p> <p>1945 – the Revolutionary Moment 331</p> <p>Independence – Revolutionary or Negotiated? 341</p> <p><b>17 The Military, Monarchy, and Marx: The Authoritarian Turn, 1950–1998 347</b></p> <p>Democracy’s Brief Springtime 347</p> <p>Guns Inherit the Revolutions 350</p> <p>Dictatorship Philippine Style 358</p> <p>Remaking “Protected” Monarchies 359</p> <p>Twilight of the Indochina Kings 364</p> <p>Reinventing a Thai <i>Dhammaraja </i>367</p> <p>Communist Authoritarianism 370</p> <p><b>18 The Commercial Turnaround, 1965– 373</b></p> <p>Economic Growth at Last 373</p> <p>More Rice, Fewer Babies 376</p> <p>Opening the Command Economies 378</p> <p>Gains and Losses 380</p> <p>Darker Costs – Environmental Degradation and Corruption 384</p> <p><b>19 Making Nations, Making Minorities, 1945– 390</b></p> <p>The High Modernist Moment, 1945–1980 390</p> <p>Education and National Identity 394</p> <p>Puritan Globalism 400</p> <p>Joining an Integrated but Plural World 405</p> <p><b>20 The Southeast Asian Region in the World 413</b></p> <p>The Regional Idea 414</p> <p>Global Comparisons 419</p> <p>References 423</p> <p>Further Reading 431</p> <p>Index 436</p>
<p>"Among the book’s many virtues is Reid’s ability to break down the two thousand years he had to cover in order to guide the reader through space and time. ...Written in a straightforward, no-nonsense style, the book will be accessible to many, with judiciously chosen quotations to enliven the story."   (<i>Australian Institute of International Affairs</i>, 1 November 2015)</p> <p>“Understanding the region is therefore not just a matter of intellectual curiosity but also of considerable topical importance. Despite its textbook-like appearance, History<i> </i>is eminently readable. It succeeds at both providing a broad-brush overview of this complex region, presenting it from within, identifying and tracing major themes, while at the same time delivering a wealth of fascinating and intriguing detail.”  (<i>Asian Review of Books</i>, 25 November 2015)</p> <p>“Reid’s comprehensive survey covers all of the major societies and many of the minor ones from Burma to the Philippines throughout the centuries. The thematic approach, interpretative insights, useful bibliography, and almost encyclopaedic wealth of information will make Reid’s History of Southeast Asia an exceptionally valuable, even indispensable, resource and reference book for other scholars… this book is a splendid contribution that can and should be read and discussed with interest by scholars and teachers of Southeast Asian studies as well as world and Eurasian history.” (<i>Asian Studies Review</i>)<br /><br />"A splendid contribution that can and should be read and discussed with interest by scholars and teachers of Southeast Asian studies as well as world and Eurasian history." - Craig A. Lockard, <i>Asian History Review</i> no. 41 (Nov. 2016, pp.167-8)</p>
<p><b>ANTHONY REID</b> is Professor Emeritus at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. He has taught and researched Southeast Asian history for 50 years, in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, and the United States. He was Founding Director of the Asia Research Institute in Singapore. He has authored or edited numerous books on aspects of Southeast Asian history from the fourteenth to the twenty-first centuries, including explorations on slavery, freedom, Islam, gender, the Chinese minority and its Jewish analogy, population, and economic history. </p>
<p>“Reid’s book is elegantly written, carefully crafted, and amply effective in its articulation and presentation of a clear, coherent, and compelling account of Southeast Asian history. The book is a stunning achievement, certain to become the history of Southeast Asia for many years to come.”<BR><b><i>John Sidel,</b> London School of Economics</i>, UK </p><p> “Anthony Reid has not only summarized his broad and deep knowledge of Southeast Asian history but entered into dialog with other scholars from a variety of fields to produce what will be the authoritative history of this region for years to come.”<BR><b><i>Mary Somers Heidhues,</b></i> Göttingen, Germany </p><p> “A really wonderful history, one that I think will find a large audience, and deservingly so. This new volume will be a very significant contribution to the field.”<BR><b><i>Eric Tagliacozzo,</b> Cornell University</i>, USA </p><p> Few places in the world possess greater historical complexity than the culturally diverse region of Southeast Asia. <i>A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads</i> presents a comprehensive, single-volume history of Southeast Asia from its encounters with agriculture, metallurgy, and religion to the late emergence of the ten states that make up this region today. Breaking from the dominant colonial and nationalist narrative that highlights Southeast Asia’s quest for statehood as its defining characteristic, historian Anthony Reid shifts the primary focus to factors of greater relevance to its inhabitants, such as environmental, religious, social, cultural, demographic, health, and intellectual changes. The result is a fuller and more richly detailed account of the region’s complex and nuanced history. </p><p>Reid reveals Southeast Asia’s distinctive gender pattern was challenged first by scriptural religions and later by European models of middle-class domesticity. Also covered is the seventeenth-century impoverishment of the region relative to European society, and Southeast Asia’s “peasantization” during the high colonial era. Concluding chapters focus on transformative events of the twentieth century: from the region’s development as a major battleground for the Pacific War with its aftermath of decolonization and the Cold War to the region’s long-awaited emergence from poverty, dictatorship, and conflict in the final decades of the century. <i>A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads</i> is indispensable for understanding the historic rhythm of this important crossroads of the Asian continent. </p>

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