TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lieberman Victor 
TI  - Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration On The Mainland: Southeast Asia In Global Context, C.800–1830 
T2  - Studies in Comparative World History
SN  - 9780521800860
U1  - 959 
PY  - 2003///
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N2  - In 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
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