Southeast Asia - 2nd Edition

Name: Southeast Asia - 2nd Edition
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This book traces the evolution of Southeast Asia and focuses on the neotraditional bases for contemporary, independent development of the region. It also focuses on continuities in the region's internal dynamics as well as its relationship to the greater global environment. > Bridging the perceived gap between Southeast Asia's historical and contemporary situations, Donald McCloud focuses on continuities in the region's internal dynamics as well as its relationship to the greater global environment. The author challenges widely held views that diversity and fragmentation are the hallmarks of the region, identifying inst > Preface -- Southeast Asia in Regional and Global Contexts -- An Overview of Early Southeast Asia -- Bases for Political Community in Traditional Southeast Asia -- State Formation and Development in Early Southeast Asia -- The Interstate System in Precolonial Southeast Asia -- Colonial Interlopers and System Disjunction -- Traditional Values in Western Cloth: T.