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Warring societies of pre-colonial Southeast Asia : local cultures of conflict within a regional context

Title
Warring societies of pre-colonial Southeast Asia : local cultures of conflict within a regional context / edited by Michael W. Charney and Kathryn Wellen.
Publication
Copenhagen, Denmark : NIAS Press, 2018.

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Additional Authors
  • Charney, Michael W.
  • Wellen, Kathryn Anderson
Description
ix, 230 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"Why is it that warfare in Southeast Asian history is depicted so differently in various historical sources and representations? Why have scholars looking at different countries found so many exceptions to regional overviews of warfare? The present volume seeks to present a new approach to the study of warfare in the region by abandoning the generalizations made in the conventional literature. The contributors offer a range of new studies of warfare in local areas within the region, looking at warfare on its own, local terms rather than for what it says about warfare in the region as a whole. This approach for the first time submits Southeast Asia to comparative analysis in a way that avoids artificial and misleading regional attributes. The varied case studies, researched and written by a number of experts of local warfare within the region include naval warfare eighteenth century Vietnam, civil war in South Sulawesi during the Pénéki War, the art and texts of war in Burmese warfare, modes of warfare in precolonial Bali, war captive taking in Thailand, and kinship, religion, and war in late eighteenth century Maguindanao, and preparations for war in the Pacific rimlands. The volume makes an important contribution to the new literature emerging on the culture of indigenous warfare in North and South America, Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific Islands, by offering a new and robust Southeast Asian entry on the one hand while adding to a new approach to the growing literature on early modern Southeast Asia warfare."--Publisher's web site.
Series Statement
NIAS studies in Asian topics ; no. 62
Uniform Title
Studies on Asian topics ; no. 62.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-221) and index.
Language (note)
  • In English.
Call Number
JFE 18-5785
ISBN
  • 9788776942281
  • 8776942287
  • 9788776942298
  • 8776942295
LCCN
  • 2018314302
  • 99975151249
OCLC
1017880418
Title
Warring societies of pre-colonial Southeast Asia : local cultures of conflict within a regional context / edited by Michael W. Charney and Kathryn Wellen.
Publisher
Copenhagen, Denmark : NIAS Press, 2018.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
NIAS studies in Asian topics ; no. 62
Studies on Asian topics ; no. 62.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-221) and index.
Language
In English.
Added Author
Charney, Michael W., editor.
Wellen, Kathryn Anderson, editor.
Other Standard Identifier
99975151249
Research Call Number
JFE 18-5785
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