Beyond binary histories
Subtitle: re-imagining Eurasia to c.1830
By: Victor Lieberman, editor.
Contributors: Lieberman, Victor B., 1945-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Southeast Asia -- History -- Congresses.; Eurasia -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: 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.
Table of contents: value: Transcending East-West dichotomies : state and culture formation in six ostensibly disparate areas / Victor Lieberman; value: Was early modern Japan culturally integrated? / Mary Elizabeth Berry; value: The birth of Europe as a Eurasian phenomenon / R.I. Moore; value: State building in early modern Europe : the case of France / James B. Collins; value: Merciful father, impersonal state : Russian autocracy in comparative perspective / Valerie Kivelson; value: Literati culture and integration in Dai Viet, c.1430-c.1840 / John K. Whitmore; value: Southeast Asia "inside out," 1300-1800 / David K. Wyatt; value: Civilization on loan : the making of an upstart polity : Mataram and its successors, 1600-1830 / Peter Carey; value: Connected histories : notes towards a reconfiguration of early modern Eurasia / Sanjay Subrahmanyan.