Asian expansions : : the historical experiences of polity expansion in Asia / / edited by Geoff Wade.
"Asia as we know it today is the product of a vast range of polity expansions over time. Whether we examine the Guptas, Cholas, Marathas or Mughals in South Asia, the Chinese polities, Nanzhao, the Tibetans, Khitan, Jin, Mongols, Koreans, Japanese or Manchus in East Asia, or the Khmers, Vietnam...
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| Superior document: | Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia ; 9 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, N.Y. : : Routledge,, 2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in the early history of Asia ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Asian expansions: An introduction; 2 Why do empires expand?; 3 Asian states and overseas expansion, 1500-1700: An approach to the problem of European exceptionalism; 4 The "native office" system: A Chinese mechanism for southern territorial expansion over two millennia; 5 The Southeast Asian mainland and the world beyond: Rethinking assumptions; 6 The thirteenth province: Internal administration and external expansion in fifteenth-century Đai Viêt
- 7 The Vietnamese empire and its expansion, c.980-18408 Siamese state expansion in the Thonburi and early Bangkok periods; 9 Politics of integration and cultures of resistance: A study of Burma's conquest and administration of Arakan (1785-1825); 10 Re-evaluating state, society and the dynamics of expansion in precolonial Gowa; Bibliography; Index