Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1350-1800 [Hardcover]

This book presents extensive new research findings on and new thinking about Southeast Asia in this interesting, richly diverse, but much understudied period. It examines the wide and well-developed trading networks, explores the different kinds of regimes and the nature of power and security, considers urban growth, international relations and the beginnings of European involvement with the region, and discusses religious factors, in particular the spread and impact of Christianity. One key theme of the book is the consideration of how well-developed Southeast Asia was before the onset of European involvement, and, how, during the peak of the commercial boom in the 1500s and 1600s, many polities in Southeast Asia were not far behind Europe in terms of socio-economic progress and attainments.

Introduction Part 1: Diplomatic and Inter-State Relations1. Status and Security in Early Southeast Asian State Systems Nicholas TARLING2. Alexandrowicz Re-visited: Strange Legal Parallels in the Indian Ocean and Western European World Systems, 1500-1800 Eric WILSON3. The Phrakhlang Ministry of Ayutthaya: Siamese Instrument to Cope with the Early Modern World Bhawan RUANGSILPPart 2: Interactions and Transactions4. Applying the Seas Perspective in the Study of Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern PeriodLeonard Y. ANDAYA5. Borneo in the Early Modern Period ca. Late Fourteenth to ca. Late Seventeenth Centuries OOI Keat Gin6. Another Past: Early Modern Vietnamese Silk Production and Export in Global Perspective HOANG Anh Tuan7. V?n ?n: The Making of an International Trading Port in Pre-Modern Vietnam NGUYEN Van Kim8. Batu Sawar, Johor: A Centre of Regional Trade in the Early Seventeenth Century Peter BORSCHBERG9. Urban Growth and Municipal Development of Early Penang NORDIN HussinPart 3: Kingship and State Systems<lƒn