New Perspectives on the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia

Continuing Explorations
Herausgeber: Aung-Thwin, Michael Arthur; Hall, Kenneth R.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780415600835
• ISBN-10: 0415600839
• Artikelnr.: 30368753

Autorenporträt

Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, US. He has published widely on the history of early and modern Burma. Kenneth R. Hall is Professor of History at Ball State University, US. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient and has published extensively on early South and Southeast Asian history.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Introduction Michael 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 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 Firearms in Southeast Asia: Focusing on
Archeological Evidence Sun Laichen 6. 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. Taylor 11.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