The last stand of Asian autonomies
Subtitle: responses to modernity in the diverse states of Southeast Asia and Korea, 1750-1900
By: edited by Anthony Reid.
Contributors: Reid, Anthony, 1939-
Series: Studies in the economies of East and South-East Asia
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions.; Korea -- Economic conditions.; Southeast Asia -- Economic policy.; Korea -- Economic policy.; Southeast Asia -- Politics and government.; Korea -- Politics and government.
Description: The last century of the exuberantly diverse independence of Asia's smaller states, before the colonial embrace of 1860-1900, has been dismissed as a doomed period of stagnation and reaction by colonial, nationalist and Marxist historians alike. But the newest writing, represented here by seventeen leading specialists on the different states of Southeast Asia and Choson Korea, has discovered in these states an astonishing laboratory of autonomous attempts to grapple with the pressures of modernity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.