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Sto caricando le informazioni... Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era: Trade, Power, and Belief (Asia East By South)di Anthony Reid
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The political and religious identities of Southeast Asia were largely formed by the experiences of the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, when international commerce boomed before eventually falling under the domination of well-armed European powers intent on monopoly. This book is the first to document the full range of responses to the profound changes of this period: urbanization and the burgeoning of commerce; the proliferation of firearms; an increase in the number and strength of states; and the shift from experimental spirit worship to the universalist scriptural religions of Islam, Christianity, and Theravada Buddhism. Bringing together ten essays by an international group of historians, Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era shows how various states adapted to new pressures and compares economic, religious, and political developments among the major cultures of the area. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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One of my reasons for reading this book is an interest in why so much of the southern half of Southeast Asia converted to Islam. This is a subject in some of the essays, e.g. on the influence of a more successful religion on animists the Philippines and eastern Indonesia, and in a separate essay on Ternate. Islamisation was a top-down process, where Islam had certain unique selling points like a code of trade law, and the fact that Islamic traders from the Middle East and India preferred doing business in Muslim areas. There is also one essay on the impact of Christianity and Islam in general.
Additional interesting issues where the interference of outside forces in Jambi (Sumatra), the organisation of trade Portuguese Malacca, and trade and politics in Ayuthaya (Thailand) before the conflict with the Burmese. There are also some rather remarkable continuities in Southeast Asia, e.g. the leading role of foreigners (Chinese, Arabs, Indians) in trade in principalities with authoritarian rulers.
Recommmended if the area interests you. ( )