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Kenneth R. HALL, A History of Early Southeast Asia: Maritime Trade and Societal Development, 100-1500 . Lanham and Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011. xiv + 386 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7425-6760-3 (hbk.); 978-0-7425-6761-0 (pbk.). $99.00 (hbk.) / $39.95 (pbk.).

Kenneth R. HALL, A History of Early Southeast Asia: Maritime Trade and Societal Development,... It would be easy to assume that this volume is a mere update of Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia (1985), 1 penned by the author Kenneth Hall. It is not. Instead, this book is an important contribution to the field of Southeast Asian studies in the true tradition of area studies as it has been envisaged over the course of the last four decades, in which the outcomes of both the diverse research methodologies and approaches of the various disciplines that characterize Southeast Asian Studies, including archaeology, art history, philology, textual analysis, and anthropology, on the one hand, and the frameworks of analysis on geographical and spatial studies on the other hand, may be synthesized to produce a master narrative that encapsulates the region of Southeast Asia, and how its various societies interacted with the external world and developed its indigenous social systems. The book covers the pre-modern, or pre-European era of Southeast Asian history, a periodization that supposedly alludes to the paradoxical impression of indigenous developments that occurred over the course of the longue durée without the intervention of external forces. In dividing the book both geographically and chronologically, Hall in effect articulates http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Brill

Kenneth R. HALL, A History of Early Southeast Asia: Maritime Trade and Societal Development, 100-1500 . Lanham and Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011. xiv + 386 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7425-6760-3 (hbk.); 978-0-7425-6761-0 (pbk.). $99.00 (hbk.) / $39.95 (pbk.).

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Book Reviews
ISSN
0022-4995
eISSN
1568-5209
DOI
10.1163/15685209-12341306
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Abstract

It would be easy to assume that this volume is a mere update of Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia (1985), 1 penned by the author Kenneth Hall. It is not. Instead, this book is an important contribution to the field of Southeast Asian studies in the true tradition of area studies as it has been envisaged over the course of the last four decades, in which the outcomes of both the diverse research methodologies and approaches of the various disciplines that characterize Southeast Asian Studies, including archaeology, art history, philology, textual analysis, and anthropology, on the one hand, and the frameworks of analysis on geographical and spatial studies on the other hand, may be synthesized to produce a master narrative that encapsulates the region of Southeast Asia, and how its various societies interacted with the external world and developed its indigenous social systems. The book covers the pre-modern, or pre-European era of Southeast Asian history, a periodization that supposedly alludes to the paradoxical impression of indigenous developments that occurred over the course of the longue durée without the intervention of external forces. In dividing the book both geographically and chronologically, Hall in effect articulates

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Journal of the Economic and Social History of the OrientBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2013

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