[Blackwell History of the World 01] • A History of Southeast Asia, Critical Crossroads by Reid, Anthony -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title page Table of Contents List of Tables List of Maps List of Illustrations Series Editor’s Preface Preface Glossary Abbreviations [1] People in the Humid Tropics

Benign Climate, Dangerous Environment Forests, Water, and People Why a Low but Diverse Population? Agriculture and Modern Language Families The Rice Revolution and Population Concentration The Agricultural Basis of State and Society Food and Clothes Women and Men Not China, not India

[2] Buddha and Shiva Below the Winds

Debates about Indic States Bronze, Iron, and Earthenware in the Archaeological Record The Buddhist Ecumene and Sanskritization Shiva and Nagara in the “Charter Era,” 900–1300 Austronesian Gateway Ports – the Negeri Dai Viet and the Border with China The Stateless Majority in the Charter Era Thirteenth/Fourteenth-Century Crisis

[3] Trade and Its Networks

Land and Sea Routes Specialized Production Integration of the Asian Maritime Markets Austronesian and Indian Pioneers The East Asian Trading System of 1280–1500 The Islamic Network The Europeans

[4] Cities and Production for the World, 1490–1640

Southeast Asia’s “Age of Commerce” Crops for the World Market Ships and Traders Cities as Centers of Innovation Trade, Guns, and New State Forms Asian Commercial Organization

[5] Religious Revolution and Early Modernity, 1350–1630

Southeast Asian Religion Theravada Cosmopolis and the Mainland States Islamic Beginnings: Traders and Mystics Polarizations of the First Global War, 1530–1610 Rival Universalisms Pluralities, Religious Boundaries, and the “Highland Savage”

[6] Asian European Encounters, 1509–1688

The Euro-Chinese Cities Women as Cultural Mediators Cultural Hybridities Islam’s “Age of Discovery” Southeast Asian Enlightenments – Makassar and Ayutthaya Gunpowder Kings as an Early Modern Form

[7] The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

The Great Divergence Debate Southeast Asians Lose the Profits of Long-Distance Trade Global Climate and Local Crises Political Consequences of the Crisis

[8] Vernacular Identities, 1660–1820

Eighteenth-Century Consolidation Religious Syncretism and Localization Performance in Palace, Pagoda, and Village History, Myth, and Identity Consolidation and its Limitations

[9] Expansion of the Sinicized World

Fifteenth-Century Revolution in Dai Viet Viet Expansion, Nam Tien Cochin-China’s Plural Southern Frontier The Greater Viet Nam of the Nguyen The Commercial Expansion of a “Chinese Century,” 1740–1840 Chinese on Southern Economic Frontiers

[10] Becoming a Tropical Plantation, 1780–1900

Pepper and Coffee Commercialization of Staple Crops The New Monopolies: Opium and Tobacco Java’s Coerced Colonial Agriculture Plantations and Haciendas Mono-crop Rice Economies of the Mainland Deltas Pre-colonial and Colonial Growth Compared

[11] The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies, 1820–1910

Siam as “Civilized” Survivor Konbaung Burma – a Doomed Modernization High Confucian Fundamentalism – Nguyen Viet Nam “Protected” Negeri Muslim Alternatives in Sumatra Bali Apocalypse Mobile “Big Men” in the Eastern Islands The Last State Evaders

[12] Making States, 1824–1940

European Nationalisms and Demarcations From Many to Two Polities in Nusantara Maximal Burma, Viable Siam Westphalia and the Middle Kingdom Building State Infrastructures How Many States in Indochina? Ethnic Construction in the New Sovereign Spaces States, not Nations

[13] Population, Peasantization, and Poverty, 1830–1940

More People Involution and Peasantization Dual Economy and the Absent Bourgeoisie Subordinating Women Shared Poverty and Health Crises

[14] Consuming Modernity, 1850–2000

Housing for a Fragile Environment The Evolution of Foods Fish, Salt, and Meat Stimulants and Drinks Cloth and Clothing Modern Dress and Identity Performance, from Festival to Film

[15] Progress and Modernity, 1900–1940

From Despair to Hope Education and a New Elite Victory of the National Idea in the 1930s Negotiating the Maleness of Modernity

[16] Mid-Twentieth-Century Crisis, 1930–1954

Economic Crisis Japanese Occupation 1945 – the Revolutionary Moment Independence – Revolutionary or Negotiated?

[17] The Military, Monarchy, and Marx: The Authoritarian Turn, 1950–1998

Democracy’s Brief Springtime Guns Inherit the Revolutions Dictatorship Philippine Style Remaking “Protected” Monarchies Twilight of the Indochina Kings Reinventing a Thai Dhammaraja Communist Authoritarianism

[18] The Commercial Turnaround, 1965–

Economic Growth at Last More Rice, Fewer Babies Opening the Command Economies Gains and Losses Darker Costs – Environmental Degradation and Corruption

[19] Making Nations, Making Minorities, 1945–

The High Modernist Moment, 1945–1980 Education and National Identity Puritan Globalism Joining an Integrated but Plural World

[20] The Southeast Asian Region in the World

The Regional Idea Global Comparisons

References Further Reading

General Southeast Asia Histories Country Histories Chapters 1–2: Beginnings Chapters 3–6: Early Modern Trade, Religion, Hybridities Chapters 7–8: Seventeenth/Eighteenth Centuries Chapters 9–11: Pre-colonial Polities Chapters 12–13: Economic and Political Changes, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries Chapters 14–15: Twentieth-Century Modernity Chapters 16–20: Post-colonial Transformation

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