Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era : : Trade, Power, and Belief / / ed. by Anthony J. S. Reid.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Andaya, Barbara Watson,; Andaya, Leonard Y.,; Ishii, Yoneo,; Kathirithamby-Wells, Jeyamalar,; Lieberman, Victor,; Manguin, Pierre-Yves,; Reid, Anthony,; Reis Thomaz, Luis Filipe Ferreira,; Taylor, Keith W.,; na Pombejra, Dhiravat,
• HerausgeberIn: Reid, Anthony J. S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Asia East by South
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 14 halftones

The political and religious identities of Southeast Asia were largely formed by the experiences of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, when international commerce boomed before eventually falling under the domination of well-armed European powers intent on monopoly. This book is the first to document the full range of responses to the profound changes of this period: urbanization and the burgeoning of commerce; the proliferation of firearms; an increase in the number and strength of states; and the shift from experimental spirit worship to the universalist scriptural religions of Islam, Christianity, and Theravada Buddhism. Bringing together ten essays by an international group of historians, Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era shows how various states adapted to new pressures and compares economic, religious, and political developments among the major cultures of the area.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Time and a Place -- PART I. Forming New States -- 1. Cultural State Formation in Eastern Indonesia -- 2. Nguyen Hoang and the Beginning of Vietnam's Southward Expansion -- PART 2. Commerce and the Southeast Asian State -- 3. The Malay Sultanate of Melaka -- 4. Cash Cropping and Upstream-Downstream Tensions: The Case of Jambi in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 5. Restraints on the Development of Merchant Capitalism in Southeast Asia before c. 1800 -- PART 3. Religious Change -- 6. Islamization and Christianization in Southeast Asia: The Critical Phase, 1550-1650 -- 7. Religious Patterns and Economic Change in Siam in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- PART 4. Key Problems of the Seventeenth-Century Transition -- 8. The Vanishing Jong: Insular Southeast Asian Fleets in Trade and War (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries) -- 9. Was the Seventeenth Century a Watershed in Burmese History? -- 10. Ayutthaya at the End of the Seventeenth Century: Was There a Shift to Isolation? -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Index