ABSTRACT
The study of the history of Southeast Asia is still growing, evolving, deepening and changing as an academic field. Over the past few decades historians have added nuance to traditional topics such as Islam and nationalism, and created new ones, such as gender, globalization and the politics of memory. The Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History looks at the major themes that have developed in the study of modern Southeast Asian history since the mid-18th century.
Contributions by experts in the field are clustered under three major headings - Political History, Economic History, and Social and Cultural History – and chapters challenge the boundaries between topics and regions. Alongside the rise and fall of colonialism, topics include conflict in Southeast Asia, tropical ecology, capitalism and its discontents, the major religions of the region, gender, and ethnicity.
The Handbook provides a stimulating introduction to the most important themes within the subject area, and is an invaluable reference work for any student and researcher on Southeast Asia and Asian and World history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction: in search of Southeast Asian history
part |2 pages
PART I Political history
chapter |10 pages
Resources, rituals, and realms: the premodern polities
chapter |11 pages
The colonial intrusion: boundaries and structures
chapter |10 pages
Gradations of colonialism in Southeast Asia’s “in- between” places
chapter |10 pages
Nationalism and other impulses of the colonial era
chapter |10 pages
Southeast Asia from the Japanese Occupation to Independence
chapter |10 pages
The Cold War in Southeast Asia
chapter |12 pages
War and peace between nations since 1945
chapter |11 pages
Separatism, civil war, and genocide: confl icts within nations
chapter |12 pages
Authoritarianism and democracy
part |2 pages
PART II Economic history
chapter |11 pages
Population growth and environmental change: a two- track model
chapter |11 pages
Nature, culture, and the premodern economy of Southeast Asia
chapter |10 pages
Colonial capitalism and economic transformation
chapter |12 pages
Migrant labor and welfare in Southeast Asia
chapter |11 pages
Contemporary capitalism and the rise of the “tigers”
chapter |11 pages
Socialism and underdevelopment in Southeast Asia
chapter |12 pages
Globalization and its discontents in Southeast Asia
part |2 pages
PART III Social and cultural history