The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia
- ISBN-10
- 0199355363
- ISBN-13
- 9780199355365
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 848
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-12-03
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- C.F.W. Higham, Nam C. Kim
Description
Southeast Asia ranks among the most significant regions in the world for tracing the prehistory of human endeavor over a period in excess of two million years. It lies in the direct path of successive migrations from the African homeland that saw settlement by hominin populations such as Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis. The first Anatomically Modern Humans, following a coastal route, reached the region at least 60,000 years ago to establish a hunter gatherer tradition that survives to this day in remote forests. From about 2000 BC, human settlement of Southeast Asia was deeply affected by successive innovations that took place to the north and west, such as rice and millet farming. A millennium later, knowledge of bronze casting penetrated along the same pathways. Copper mines were identified and exploited, and metals were exchanged over hundreds of kilometers. In the Mekong Delta and elsewhere, these developments led to early states of the region, which benefitted from an agricultural revolution involving permanent ploughed rice fields. These developments illuminate how the great early kingdoms of Angkor, Champa, and Funan came to be, a vital stage in understanding the roots of the present nation states of Southeast Asia. Assembling the most current research across a variety of disciplines--from anthropology and archaeology to history, art history, and linguistics--The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia will present an invaluable resource to experienced researchers and those approaching the topic for the first time.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian History
By TagliacozzoThe Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian History
-
The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History
By Eiichiro Azuma, David YooKing, 439 Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond (Wilson), 24 Reinecke, John, 78, 308, 314, 315 Religious history, 360–72 affiliations, 360 future of religion and, 368 intellectual foundations of ...
-
The Oxford Handbook of World History
By the late Jerry H. BentleyThirty-three essays by a stellar collection of distinguished scholars in the field of world history, providing a comprehensive guide to current scholarship and current thinking in one of the most dynamic fields of historical scholarship
-
The Oxford Handbook of Early China
By Elizabeth Childs-Johnson... text. I will also draw on the “Epitomes” and the “Mohist Analects” occasionally, but only minimal references will be ... the Mozi. 7 6 These are the leaststudied portion of the Mozi. See Graham (1978) for the most thorough discussion of ...
-
Southeast Asia: A Modern History
By Nicholas TarlingThis innovative book adopts both a narrative and a comparative approach to the modern history of Southeast Asia. It examines the experiences of Southeast Asian states, peoples, and regimes, and...
-
Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia
By Rosemary Foot, John Ravenhill, Saadia M. PekkanenThis handbook examines the theory and practice of international relations in Asia.
-
Early Southeast Asia: Selected Essays
By O. W. WoltersSoutheast Asia over Three Generations: Essays Presented to Benedict R. O'G. Anderson, ed. James T. Siegel and Audrey R. Kahin. 2003. 398 pp. ISBN 0-87727-735–4. Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia, George McTurnan Kahin, intro.
-
A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830
By Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Y. AndayaWritten by two expert and highly esteemed authors, this is the much-anticipated textbook on the early modern history of Southeast Asia.
-
The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Asia and the Pacific
By Ben Saul, Simon Chesterman, Hisashi OwadaThe Oxford Handbook of International Law in Asia and the Pacific brings together pre-eminent and emerging specialists to analyse the approach to and influence of key states of the region, as well as whether truly 'Asian' trends can be ...
-
In Search of Southeast Asia: A Modern History
By David Joel SteinbergIn Search of Southeast Asia: A Modern History