A Maritime Vietnam From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century Li Paperback

A Maritime Vietnam\n\nFrom Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century\n\nPowerful new history of Vietnam over two millennia arguing that key political changes resulted from the impact of the sea.\n\nTana Li (Author)\n\n9781009237642, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 1 February 2024\n\n354 pages\n23 x 15.3 x 2 cm, 0.513 kg\n\n'Crafted by one of the region's leading historians and written in an engaging style, this study of maritime Vietnam offers valuable new perspectives on the dynamics of premodern East and Southeast Asia.\u2026 Recommended.' M. T. Stark, CHOICE\n\nDespite its 3,000 kilometre coastline, few people see Vietnam as a maritime country. Here Li Tana presents a powerful new argument about Vietnamese history: that key political changes resulted from the impact, economic and otherwise, of the sea. This is a finely layered account covering the two millennia before colonisation that radically restructures how we understand the role of the maritime a]