Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era: Female Characters, Male Playwrights, and the Modern Stage

by Anthony Reid

Book Overview

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;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801480930
• ISBN13: 9780801480935
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"