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Available at a lower price from other sellers that may not offer free Prime shipping. lending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia’s premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe,Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a Eurasian-wide pat tern whereby  isolates cohered to form ever larger, more stable, more  complex  political and cultural systems.​​

With accelerating force, climatic, commercial, and military stimuli joined to produce patterns of linear-cum-cyclic construction that became remarkably synchronized even between regions that had no contact with one another. Yet this study also distinguishes between two zones of integration, one where indigenous groups remained in control and a second where agency gravitated to external conquest elites. Here, then, is a fundamentally original view of Eurasia during a 1,000-year period that speaks to both historians of individual regions and those interested in global trends.

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