Local integration and Eurasian analogies: structuring Southeast Asian history, c.1350-c.1830
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A new historiographical paradigm of Southeast Asian history from circa 1350 to circa 1830 holds that the mainland developed differently from archipelagic regions. The mainland comprised modern Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, while the archipelagoes comprised modern Malaysia and Indonesia. Structural analogies for the mainland's consolidation can be found in the early modern history of Japan, Russia and Western Europe. Such analogies are not valid for the archipelagic regions. Moreover, the 17th century was a watershed for the archipelagoes but not for the mainland.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1993
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Introduction
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Early modern history, the period encompassing circa 1400-1800, can be viewed in a broad Eurasian context to overcome the tendency toward Eurocentric comparisons in Southeast Asian history. The period generally is characterized by broad trends toward cultural, political and economic integration, the subsumption of local identities in broader systems, and an intensified circulation of material goods and concepts. Areas that had a fixed political center and a feeling of competition for scarce resources developed a more self-conscious sense of solidarity.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1997
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Transcending East-West dichotomies: state and culture formation in six ostensibly disparate areas
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A pattern of larger units coalescing out of local societies is characteristic of Eurasia during the early modern period from about 1450 to 1830. Burma, Siam, Vietnam, France, Russia, and Japan all exhibit tendencies during the early modern period toward political consolidation, administrative centralization, cultural integration, and social regulation. The dynamics underlying these developments are related to economic growth, military competition, accumulation of institutional expertise and intellectual support for political order.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1997
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