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Author Hall, Kenneth R

Title A history of early Southeast Asia : maritime trade and societal development, 100-1500 / Kenneth R. Hall
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 384 p.)
Contents Trade and statecraft in early Southeast Asia -- Early international maritime trade and cultural networking in the Southeast Asia, region, ca. 100-500 -- Competition on the east coast of the mainland : early Champa and Vietnam political economies -- The foundations of Indonesian polity : Srivijaya and Java to the early tenth century -- Structural change in the Javanese community, ca. 900-1300 -- The temple-based mainland political economies of Angkor Cambodia and pagan Burma, ca. 889-1300 -- Transitions in the Southeast Asian mainland commercial realm, ca. 900-1500 -- Maritime trade and community development in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Java -- Upstream and downstream unification and the changing sense of community in Southeast Asia's fifteenth-century maritime port-polities -- Maritime trade and state development, ca. 1250-1500
Summary 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 islandworld (Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines). Kenneth Hall explores this dynamic era in detail, which was notable for growing external contacts, internal adaptations of nearby cultures, and progressions from hunter-gatherer and agricultural communities to inclusive hierarchical states. In the process, formerly local civilizations became maj
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-371) and index
Notes English
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Subject HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
Civilization
Commerce
Commerce -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Southeast Asia -- Commerce -- History -- To 1500
Southeast Asia -- Commerce -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500
Southeast Asia -- Civilization -- To 1500
Southeast Asia -- History -- To 1500
Subject Southeast Asia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021678820
ISBN 9780742567627
1283283603
9781283283601
9786613283603
6613283606
0742567621