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People in the humid tropics -- Buddha and Shiva below the winds -- Trade and its networks -- Cities and production for the world, 1490-1640 -- Religious revolution and early modernity, 1350-1630 -- Asian European encounters, 1509-1688 -- The crisis of the seventeenth century -- Vernacular identities, 1660-1820 -- Expansion of the sinicized world -- Becoming a tropical plantation, 1780-1900 -- The last stand of Asian autonomies, 1820-1910 -- Making states, 1824-1940 -- Population, peasantization, and poverty, 1830-1940 -- Consuming modernity, 1850-2000 -- Progress and modernity, 1900-1940 -- Mid-twentieth-century crisis, 1930-1954 -- The military, monarchy, and Marx: the authoritarian turn, 1950-1998 -- The commercial turnaround, 1965- -- Making nations, making minorities, 1945- -- The Southeast Asian region in the world. |
