Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680: Volume 2, Expansion and Crisis

by Anthony Reid

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300065167
• ISBN13: 9780300065169
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"