Warring Societies of Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia: Local Cultures of Conflict Within a Regional Context 2017 (Paperback)

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 Peneki 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.

General

Imprint:	NIAS Press
Country of origin:	Denmark
Series:	NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, 62
Release date:	December 2017
Editors:	Michael W. Charney • Kathryn Anderson Wellen
Dimensions:	228 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-87-7694-229-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Armed conflict Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Promotions
LSN:	87-7694-229-5
Barcode:	9788776942298

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