The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies: Responses to Modernity in the Diverse States of Southeast Asia and Korea, 1750–1900

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction....Pages 1-25
Mainland-Archipelagic Parallels and Contrasts, c.1750–1850....Pages 27-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
A New Phase of Commercial Expansion in Southeast Asia, 1760–1850....Pages 57-81
Chinese Pioneering in Eighteenth-Century Southeast Asia....Pages 83-101
Agriculture as a Generator of Change in Late Choson Korea....Pages 103-131
Peasant Drain and Abandoned Villages in the Red River Delta between 1750 and 1850....Pages 133-152
Rural Monetization and Land-Mortgage Thet-Kayits in Kon-baung Burma....Pages 153-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Adapting to Political and Economic Change: Palembang in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries....Pages 187-215
Siak and its Changing Strategies for Survival, c.1700–1870....Pages 217-243
The Relationship between Political Theory and Economic Growth in Vietnam, 1750–1840....Pages 245-268
The Myth of the Restoration: Dang-Trong Influences in the Spiritual Life of the Early Nguyen Dynasty (1802–47)....Pages 269-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Social and Economic Developments in Eighteenth-Century Korea....Pages 299-320
Java: A Self-Critical Examination of the Nation and its History....Pages 321-343
New Kingdoms, Old Concerns: Balinese Identities in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries....Pages 345-366
‘Wanderers, Robbers and Bad Folk’: the Politics of Violence, Protection and Trade in Eastern Sulawesi 1750–1850....Pages 367-388
Lombok under the Mataram Dynasty, 1839–94....Pages 389-408
Front Matter....Pages 409-409
Reform Tendencies in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam....Pages 411-424
History and Directionality in the Early Nineteenth-Century Tai World....Pages 425-443
Back Matter....Pages 444-458