Strange Parallels [Volume 2]

England: Cambridge University Press, 2009. First Paperback Edition. Octavo with glossy wraps, 484 pp: maps; 23 cm Very Good; a clean tight copy, pages crisp; some creasing to spine. Paperback. ISBN: 9780521530361

"In an ambitious effort to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, this study connects Southeast Asia to world history. Victor Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast Asia's great lowland corridors experienced a pattern of accelerating integration punctuated by recurrent collapse. These trajectories were synchronized not only between corridors, but most curiously, between the mainland as a whole, much of Europe, and other sectors of Eurasia. Lieberman describes in detail the nature of mainland consolidation and dissects the mix of endogenous and external factors responsible."--Publisher