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  • Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia

    by Anthony Reid ...
    In this volume, Anthony Reid positions Southeast Asia on the stage of world history. He argues that the region not only had a historical character of its own, but that it played a crucial role in shaping the modern world.Southeast Asia’s interaction with the forces uniting and transforming the world is explored through chapters focusing on Islamization; Chinese, Siamese, Cham and Javanese trade; ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A History of Southeast Asia

    Critical Crossroads

    by Anthony Reid ...
    Series series Blackwell History of the World
    2016 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Textbook in the HumanitiesA History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilizations and religious patterns up to the present day.Incorporates environmental, social, economic, and gender issues to tell a multi-dimensional story of Southeast Asian history from earliest ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Chinese Circulations

    Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia

    by Wang Gungwu, Anthony Reid ...
    Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercantile embrace. Chinese Circulations provides an unprecedented overview of this trade, its scope, diversity, and complexity ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Imperial Alchemy

    Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia

    by Anthony Reid ...
    The mid-twentieth century marked one of the greatest watersheds of Asian history, when a range of imperial constructs were declared to be nation-states, either by revolution or decolonisation. Nationalism was the great alchemist, turning the base metal of empire into the gold of nations. To achieve such a transformation from the immense diversity of these Asian empires required a different set of ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific

    Edited by Anthony Reid ...
    Series series The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900
    The essays reprinted here trace the history of Chinese emigration into the Pacific region, first as individuals, traders or exiles, moving into the 'Nanyang' (Southeast Asia), then as a mass migration across the ocean after the mid-19th century. The papers include discussions of what it meant to be Chinese, the position of the migrants vis-Ã -vis China itself, and their relations with indigenous ... Read more

    $325.00 USD

  • The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 3, The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries

    Edited by David O. Morgan, Anthony Reid ...
    Series series The New Cambridge History of Islam
    This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth. As the faith crossed cultural boundaries, the trader and the mystic became as important as the soldier and the administrator. Distinctive Islamic idioms began to emerge from other great linguistic traditions apart from Arabic, especially in Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Swahili, ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Delimiting Modernities

    Conceptual Challenges and Regional Responses

    by Sven Trakulhun, Ralph Weber, Pheng Cheah, Gudrun Krämer, Anthony Reid, Volker H. Schmidt, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Arif Dirlik, Wolfgang Knöbl0, Tamara Loos1, Andrea Riemenschnitter2 ...
    This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial studies. Hitherto, most engagements with modernity in the plural have remained conspicuously ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia

    Edited by Anthony Reid, Michael Gilsenan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy. Even in Asia, where such ideas have always been marginal, radical groups are taking the view that scriptural authority requires either Islamic rule (Dar-ul-Islam) or a state of war with the essentially illegitimate authority of non-Muslims or secularists. This book places the debate in a specifically Asian context. It ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The South China Sea

    The Struggle for Power in Asia

    by Bill Hayton ...
    China’s rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing’s back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpowers grows ever more likely. This important book is the first to make clear sense of the South Sea disputes. Bill Hayton, a journalist with extensive ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • A Short History of China and Southeast Asia

    Tribute, Trade and Influence

    by Martin Stuart-Fox ...
    China, the world's most populous nation, has always exerted great influence on the traditional kingdoms and modern states of Southeast Asia. Today, history and culture continue to shape the modern relationship.In this concise volume, Martin Stuart-Fox charts the history of relations between China and Southeast Asia across two millennia, examining patterns of diplomacy, commercial networks, and ... Read more

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  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

    by James C. Scott ...
    For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Islamic Exceptionalism

    How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World

    by Shadi Hamid ...
    In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle East. Divides among citizens aren't just about power but are products of fundamental disagreements over the very nature and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD