Beyond binary histories : re-imagining Eurasia to c.1830 /
Victor Lieberman, editor
- 325 pages ; 22 c.m
All but one were papers originally presented at a workshop entitled The Eurasian context of the early modern history of mainland South East Asia, 1400-1800, held June 22-24, 1995, University of London
Includes bibliographical references and index
Transcending East-West dichotomies : state and culture formation in six ostensibly disparate areas / Victor Lieberman -- Was early modern Japan culturally integrated? / Mary Elizabeth Berry -- The birth of Europe as a Eurasian phenomenon / R.I. Moore -- State building in early modern Europe : the case of France / James B. Collins -- Merciful father, impersonal state : Russian autocracy in comparative perspective / Valerie Kivelson -- Literati culture and integration in Dai Viet, c.1430-c.1840 / John K. Whitmore -- Southeast Asia "inside out," 1300-1800 / David K. Wyatt -- Civilization on loan : the making of an upstart polity : Mataram and its successors, 1600-1830 / Peter Carey -- Connected histories : notes towards a reconfiguration of early modern Eurasia / Sanjay Subrahmanyan