Lieberman Victor. Strange parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830 Volume 1. Integration on the Mainland Southeast Asia in Global Context

Cambridge University Press, 2003. - 510 p.
ISBN10: 0521804965, ISBN13: 978-0521804967In an ambitious effort to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, this study connects Southeast Asia to world history. Victor Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast Asia's great lowland corridors experienced a pattern of accelerating integration punctuated by recurrent collapse. These trajectories were synchronized not only between corridors, but most curiously, between the mainland as a whole, much of Europe, and other sectors of Eurasia. Lieberman describes in detail the nature of mainland consolidation and dissects the mix of endogenous and external factors responsible.