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The Southeast Asia Connection: Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy, 500 BC–AD 500

By Sing C. Chew

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2018
ISBN
9781785337895
DOI
10.1515/9781785337895
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2492635 bytes)
Pages
188\188
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 04:07:53

Description

The contribution of Southeast Asia to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not received much attention. It has often been viewed as a region of peripheral entrepôts, especially in the early centuries of the current era. Recent archaeological evidence revealed the existence of established and productive polities in Southeast Asia in the early parts of the historic period and earlier. This book recalibrates these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region its due instead of treating it as little more than of marginal interest.

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