UID:
almafu_9959238381702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxvi, 947 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-20962-5
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0-511-70057-1
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1-282-46695-X
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9786612466953
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0-511-81600-6
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0-511-65799-4
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0-511-65854-0
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0-511-65668-8
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0-511-65583-5
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0-511-65723-4
Serie:
Studies in comparative world history
Inhalt:
Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a Eurasian-wide pattern whereby local isolates cohered to form ever larger, more stable, more complex political and cultural systems. With accelerating force, climatic, commercial, and military stimuli joined to produce patterns of linear-cum-cyclic construction that became remarkably synchronized even between regions that had no contact with one another. Yet this study also distinguishes between two zones of integration, one where indigenous groups remained in control and a second where agency gravitated to external conquest elites. Here, then, is a fundamentally original view of Eurasia during a 1,000-year period that speaks to both historians of individual regions and those interested in global trends.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Half-title; Series title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Abbreviations Used in the Notes; Preface; Chapter one: A Far Promontory: Southeast Asia and Eurasia; Chapter two: Varieties of European Experience, I: The Formation of Russia and France to c. 1600; Chapter three: Varieties of European Experience, II: A Great Acceleration, c. 1600-1830; Chapter four: Creating Japan; Chapter five: Integration Under Expanding Inner Asian Influence, I: China: A Precocious and Durable Unity
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Chapter six: Integration Under Expanding Inner Asian Influence, II: South Asia: Patterns Intermediate Between China and the Protected ZoneChapter seven: Locating the Islands; Conclusion; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-53036-9
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-82352-8
Sprache:
Englisch
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