Introduction: A Time and a Place

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations and Maps ix
4. Preface xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction: A Time and a Place 1
7. PART I. Forming New States
8. 1. Cultural State Formation in Eastern Indonesia 23
9. 2. Nguyen Hoang and the Beginning of Vietnam's Southward Expansion 42
10. PART 2. Commerce and the Southeast Asian State
11. 3. The Malay Sultanate of Melaka 69
12. 4. Cash Cropping and Upstream-Downstream Tensions: The Case of Jambi in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 91
13. 5. Restraints on the Development of Merchant Capitalism in Southeast Asia before c. 1800 123
14. PART 3. Religious Change
15. 6. Islamization and Christianization in Southeast Asia: The Critical Phase, 1550-1650 151
16. 7. Religious Patterns and Economic Change in Siam in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 180
17. PART 4. Key Problems of the Seventeenth-Century Transition 195
18. 8. The Vanishing Jong: Insular Southeast Asian Fleets in Trade and War (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries) 197
19. 9. Was the Seventeenth Century a Watershed in Burmese History? 214
20. 10. Ayutthaya at the End of the Seventeenth Century: Was There a Shift to Isolation? 250
21. Glossary 273
22. Contributors 277
23. Index 279