Asian Expansions: The Historical Experiences of Polity Expansion in Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415589956 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 250 str.

Geoffrey Wade;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

Analyses Asian historical experiences of polity expansion, examining the motives, mechanisms and justifications for territorial expansion by Asian polities from premodern times.

Spis treści

1. Asian Expansions: an Introduction 2. Why Do Empires Expand? 3. Asian States and Overseas Expansion, 1500–1700: An Approach to the Problem of European Exceptionalism 4. The "Native Office" System – A Chinese Mechanism for Southern Territorial Expansion over Two Millennia 5. The Southeast Asian Mainland and the World Beyond: Rethinking Assumptions 6. The Thirteenth Province: Internal Administration and External Expansion in Fifteenth Century Đại Việt 7. The Vietnamese Empire and its Expansion 980-1840 8. Siamese State Expansion in the Thonburi and Early Bangkok Periods 9. Politics of Integration and Cultures of Resistance: A Study of Burma’s Conquest and Administration of Arakan 10. Re-evaluating State, Society and the Dynamics of Expansion in Precolonial Gowa

O autorze

Geoff Wade is a Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.