In Search of Southeast Asia

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Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1988-02-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Summary

In Search of Southeast Asia explores the creative process by which Southeast Asians have been adapting their cultures to a world in change. Influences such as climate and ecology, science and technology are linked to the economic, social, political, and cultural dimensions of Southeast Asia's modern transformation.

Table of Contents

Maps and Figures
vii(2)
Preface ix
Introduction 1(6)
Part One: The Eighteenth-Century World 7(90)
1 The Peasant World
9(12)
2 Non-State Peoples
21(5)
3 Authority and Village Society
26(4)
4 Provincial Powers
30(7)
5 Religious Life and Leadership
37(12)
6 Traders and Markets
49(11)
7 The Buddhist Kings
60(9)
8 The Vietnamese Emperors
69(7)
9 The Malay Sultans
76(7)
10 The Javanese Kings
83(8)
11 The Spanish Governors
91(6)
Part Two: New Challenges to Old Authority 97(74)
Introduction 99(2)
12 Burma, 1752-1878
101(10)
13 Siam, 1767-1868
111(12)
14 Cambodia, 1779-1863
123(5)
15 Vietnam, 1802-1867
128(11)
16 The Malay Peninsula to 1874
139(7)
17 The Archipelago, 1750-1870
146(5)
18 Java, 1757-1875
151(9)
19 The Philippines, 1762-1872
160(11)
Part Three: Frameworks for Nations 171(74)
Introduction 173(2)
20 The Making of New States
175(28)
21 Bureaucratic and Economic Frameworks
203(16)
22 Economic Transformation, 1870-1940
219(26)
Part Four: Social Change and the Emergence of Nationalism 245(102)
23 Preludes
247(7)
24 Channels of Change
254(15)
25 The Philippines
269(13)
26 Burma
282(10)
27 Indonesia
292(20)
28 Vietnam
312(12)
29 Siam
324(8)
30 Malaya
332(8)
31 Laos and Cambodia
340(7)
Part Five: Southeast Asian Nations in a New World Order 347(130)
32 War, Independence, and Political Transition
349(7)
33 Vietnam
356(18)
34 Cambodia and Laos
374(13)
35 The Kingdom of Thailand
387(7)
36 The Union of Burma
394(11)
37 Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei
405(13)
38 The Republic of Indonesia
418(13)
39 The Republic of the Philippines
431(12)
40 Transforming Southeast Asia
443(34)
Appendix: Southeast Asian Languages 477(4)
Notes 481(4)
Glossary 485(10)
Bibliography 495(70)
Index 565(24)
Notes on the Authors 589

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