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1. 1. Strange Parallels

   Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800–1830

   

   A wide-ranging comparative history arguing that mainland Southeast Asian polities underwent long, recurring cycles of consolidation and fragmentation from roughly 800 to 1830 that coincided with parallel rhythms in parts of Europe and Japan. It links this synchrony to shared forces—climate shifts, demographic growth, commercial expansion, warfare, and the spread of literate, legitimating traditions—while distinguishing the trajectories of maritime Southeast Asia and Eurasia’s more “exposed” frontiers. By embedding the region within global patterns, it challenges Eurocentric exceptionalism and reframes the early modern era as a broadly comparable process across multiple world regions.

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