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 ...
Spis treści
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Introduction: Southeast Asia in World History: Macrohistorical Considerations and World System History
Chapter 1. Early Sou...
O autorze
Sing C. Chew is Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, a...