The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies
Responses to Modernity in the Diverse States of Southeast Asia and Korea, 1750-1900
Published on 12. September 1997
XX, 458 pages
978-1-349-25760-7 (ISBN)
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The last century of the exuberantly diverse independence of Asia's smaller states, before the colonial embrace of 1860-1900, has been dismissed as a doomed period of stagnation and reaction by colonial, nationalist and Marxist historians alike. But the newest writing, represented here by 17 leading specialists on the different states of Southeast Asia and Choson Korea, has discovered in these states an astonishing laboratory of autonomous attempts to grapple with the pressures of modernity.
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The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies
Responses to Modernity in the Diverse States of Southeast Asia and Korea, 1750-1900
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02/1997
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List of Maps - Preface - List of Abbreviations - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; A.Reid - Mainland-Archipelagic Parallels and Contrasts, c.1750-1850; V.Lieberman - ECONOMIC CHANGES - A New Phase of Commercial Expansion in Southeast Asia 1760-1840; A.Reid - Chinese Pioneering in Eighteenth Century Southeast Asia; C.Trocki - Agriculture as a Generator of Change in Late Choson Korea; H.Lee - Peasant Drain and Abandoned Villages in the Red River Delta between 1750 and 1850; Y.Sakurai - Rural Monetization and Land-Mortgage Thet-kayits in Kon-baung Burma; T.Saito - STATE STRATEGIES - Adapting to Political and Economic Change: Palembang in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries; B.W.Andaya - Siak and its Changing Strategies of Survival: c.1700-1870; J.Kathirithamby-Wells - The Relationship between Political Theory and Economic Growth in Vietnam, 1750-1840; A.Woodside - The Myth of the Restoration: Dang Trong Influences in the Spiritual Life of the early Nguyen dynasty (1802-47); N.Cooke - NEW CONSCIOUSNESS - Social and Intellectual Changes in Eighteenth Century Korea; M.Deuchler - Java: a self-critical examination of the Nation and its History; A.Kumar - New Kingdoms, Old Concerns: Balinese Identities in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; H.Creese - 'Wanderers, Robbers and Bad Folk': The Politics of Violence, Protection and Trade in Eastern Sulawesi 1750-1850; E.Velthoen - Lombok under the Mataram Dynasty, 1839-1894; A.van der Kraan - PATTERNS OF REFORM IN THE 'LAST STAND' - Reform Tendencies in XIXth Century Vietnam; V.M.Giang - History and Directionality in the Early Nineteenth Century Tai World; D.Wyatt - Glossary - Index
