A History of Early Southeast Asia

Maritime Trade and Societal Development, 100–1500

Kenneth R. Hall

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9780742567627
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

This comprehensive history provides a fresh interpretation of Southeast Asia from 100 to 1500, when major social and economic developments foundational to modern societies took place on the mainland (Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) and the island world (Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines). Kenneth R. Hall explores this dynamic era in detail, which was notable for growing external contacts, internal adaptations of nearby cultures, and progressions from hunter-gatherer and agricultural communities to inclusive hierarchical states. In the process, formerly local civilizations became major participants in period's international trade networks.

Incorporating the latest archeological evidence and international scholarship, Kenneth Hall enlarges upon prior histories of early Southeast Asia that did not venture beyond 1400, extending the study of the region to the Portuguese seizure of Melaka in 1511. Written for a wide audience of non-specialists, the book will be essential reading for all those interested in Asian and world history.

Table of contents

• Figures and Maps
• Preface
• 1 Trade and Statecraft in Early Southeast Asia
• 2 Early International Maritime Trade and Cultural Networking in the Southeast
• 3 Competition on the East Coast of the Mainland
• 4 The Foundations of Indonesian Polity
• 5 Structural Change in the Javanese Community, ca. 900–1300
• 6 The Temple-Based Mainland Political Economies of Angkor Cambodia and Pagan Burma, ca. 889–1300
• 7 Transitions in the Southeast Asian Mainland Commercial Realm, ca. 900–1500
• 8 Maritime Trade and Community Development in Fourteenth-and Fifteenth-Century Java
• 9 Upstream and Downstream Unification and the Changing Sense of Community in Southeast Asia’s Fifteenth-Century Maritime Port-Polities
• 10 Maritime Trade and State Development, ca. 1250–1500
• Abbreviations Used in References and in Citations
• References
• About the Author