The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Mainland-Archipelagic Parallels and Contrasts, c. 1750–1850

Chapter 3 A New Phase of Commercial Expansion in Southeast Asia, 1760–1850

Chapter 4 Chinese Pioneering in Eighteenth-Century Southeast Asia

Chapter 5 Agriculture as a Generator of Change in Late Choson Korea

Chapter 6 Peasant Drain and Abandoned Villages in the Red River Delta between 1750 and 1850

Chapter 7 Rural Monetization and Land-Mortgage Thet-Kayits in Kon-baung Burma

Chapter 8 Adapting to Political and Economic Change: Palembang in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 9 Siak and its Changing Strategies for Survival, c. 1700–1870

Chapter 10 The Relationship between Political Theory and Economic Growth in Vietnam, 1750–1840

Chapter 11 The Myth of the Restoration: Dang-Trong Influences in the Spiritual Life of the Early Nguyen Dynasty (1802–47)

Chapter 12 Social and Economic Developments in Eighteenth-Century Korea

Chapter 13 Java: A Self-Critical Examination of the Nation and its History

Chapter 14 New Kingdoms, Old Concerns: Balinese Identities in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 15 ‘Wanderers, Robbers and Bad Folk’: the Politics of Violence, Protection and Trade in Eastern Sulawesi 1750–1850

Chapter 16 Lombok under the Mataram Dynasty, 1839–94

Chapter 17 Reform Tendencies in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam

Chapter 18 History and Directionality in the Early Nineteenth-Century Tai World