Lieberman Victor. Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830. Volume 2. Mainland Mirrors Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands

Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 976 p. — ISBN-10 0521530369, ISBN-13 978-0521530361.This book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a hitherto unrecognized pattern of political and cultural integration that was governed by Eurasian-wide climatic, commercial, and military stimuli. This fundamentally original view of Eurasia speaks to both historians of individual regions and those interested in global trends.Volume 1