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Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680
Anthony Reid
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Description for Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680
paperback. From 1450 to 1680, when the Renaissance and early capitalism were transforming Europe, changes were occuring in Southeast Asia. Volume one explored the physical, material, cultural and social structures of the region; this volume focuses on the changes that defined the Age of Commerce as a period. Num Pages: 390 pages, 64 illustrations, references, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1FM; 3JB; 3JD; HBJF; HBLC; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 620.
Between the fifteenth and the mid-seventeenth centuries, when the Renaissance and early capitalism were transforming Europe, changes no less dramatic were occurring in Southeast Asia. This diverse tropical region was integrated into a global trade system, while trade-based cities came to dominate its affairs. Its states became more centralized and absolutist, and its people adopted scriptural faiths of personal morality. The pace of these changes finds parallels only in our own era.
Anthony Reid has analyzed and vividly portrayed this Southeast Asian Age of Commerce in two volumes. The first volume, published in 1988 to great acclaim, explored ... Read more
Between the fifteenth and the mid-seventeenth centuries, when the Renaissance and early capitalism were transforming Europe, changes no less dramatic were occurring in Southeast Asia. This diverse tropical region was integrated into a global trade system, while trade-based cities came to dominate its affairs. Its states became more centralized and absolutist, and its people adopted scriptural faiths of personal morality. The pace of these changes finds parallels only in our own era.
Anthony Reid has analyzed and vividly portrayed this Southeast Asian Age of Commerce in two volumes. The first volume, published in 1988 to great acclaim, explored ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
390
Condition
New
Number of Pages
390
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300065169
SKU
V9780300065169
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About Anthony Reid
Anthony Reid is professor of Southeast Asian history, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University.
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