A History of Early Southeast Asia

Maritime Trade and Societal Development, 1001500

By (author) Kenneth R. Hall

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Publication date:

28 December 2010

Length of book:

398 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742567627

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 island world (Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines). Kenneth R. 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 major participants in period's international trade networks.

Incorporating the latest archeological evidence and international scholarship, Kenneth Hall enlarges upon prior histories of early Southeast Asia that did not venture beyond 1400, extending the study of the region to the Portuguese seizure of Melaka in 1511. Written for a wide audience of non-specialists, the book will be essential reading for all those interested in Asian and world history.

Chapter 1: Trade and Statecraft in Early Southeast Asia
Chapter 2: Early International Maritime Trade and Cultural Networking in the Southeast Asia Region, ca. 100–500
Chapter 3: Competition on the East Coast of the Mainland: Early Champa and Vietnam Political Economies
Chapter 4: The Foundations of Indonesian Polity: Srivijaya and Java to the Early Tenth Century
Chapter 5: Structural Change in the Javanese Community, ca. 900–1300
Chapter 6: The Temple-Based Mainland Political Economies of Angkor Cambodia and Pagan Burma, ca. 889–1300
Chapter 7: Transitions in the Southeast Asian Mainland Commercial Realm, ca. 900–1500
Chapter 8: Maritime Trade and Community Development in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Java
Chapter 9: Upstream and Downstream Unification and the Changing Sense of Community in Southeast Asia's Fifteenth-Century Maritime Port-Polities
Chapter 10: Maritime Trade and State Development, ca. 1250–1500
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A coherent and comprehensive narrative of the functioning and implications of regional and international economic developments on Southeast Asian social organization in the pre-modern era that has hitherto not been attempted. . . . An important contribution to the field of Southeast Asian studies as well as global history and international studies.