The Southeast Asia Connection : : Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy, 500 BC–AD 500 / / Sing C. Chew.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Chew, Sing C.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (188 p.)

The contribution of Southeast Asia to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not received much attention. It has often been viewed as a region of peripheral entrepôts, especially in the early centuries of the current era. Recent archaeological evidence revealed the existence of established and productive polities in Southeast Asia in the early parts of the historic period and earlier. This book recalibrates these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region its due instead of treating it as little more than of marginal interest.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction. Southeast Asia in World History: Macrohistorical Considerations and World System History -- Chapter 1. Early Southeast Asia -- The Networks -- Chapter 2. Global Linkages: The First Eurasian World System -- The Economy -- Chapter 3. Southeast Asia in the Maritime Eurasian World Economy -- The Polities -- Chapter 4. Political Transformations in Southeast Asia -- Methodological Reprise -- Bibliography -- Index