Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era: Trade, Power, and Belief 9781501732171

Table of contents :
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

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Asia East by South A series published under the auspices of the Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University

Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era: Trade, Power, and Belief edited by Anthony Reid ALSO IN THE SERIES

Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910 by James R. Rush An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java, 1912-1926 by Takashi Shiraishi Opium and Empire: Chinese Society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910 by Carl A. Trocki

The papers in this volume grew out of a conference sponsored by the Joint Committee on Southeast Asia of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era Trade, Power, and Belief

Edited by ANTHONY REID

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Ithaca and London

Copyright © 1993 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. First published 1993 by Cornell University Press. International Standard Book Number 0-8014-2848-3 (cloth) International Standard Book Number 0-8014-8093-o (paper) Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 92-54969 Printed in the United States of America

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