TY - BOOK AU - Steinberg,David Joel TI - In search of Southeast Asia: a modern history SN - 0824811100 AV - DS511 PY - 1971///. CY - New York PB - Praeger Publishers KW - Southeast Asia KW - History N1 - Some printings have: "Praeger paperbound texts".; Includes bibliographical references and index; The eighteenth century world. The peasant world ; The upland peoples ; Authority and village society ; Provincial powers ; Religious life and leadership ; Traders and markets ; The Buddhist kings l The Vietnamese emperors ; The Malay sultans ; The Javanese kings ; The Spanish governors -- New challenges to old authority. Burma, 1752-1878 ; Thailand, 1767-1868 ; Cambodia, 1779-1863 ; Vietnam, 1802-67 ; The Malay Peninsula to 1874 ; The Archipelago, 1750-1870 ; Java, 1757-1875 ; The Philippines, 1762-1872 -- Frameworks for nations. The making of new states ; Bureaucratic and economic frameworks ; Economic transformation, 1870-1940 -- Social change and the emergence of nationalism. Preludes ; Channels of change ; The Philippines ; Burma ; Indonesia ; Vietnam ; Thailand ; Malaya ; Laos and Cambodia -- The preoccupations of independence. An overview ; The evolution of new political societies ; The postwar arena : domestic and international themes ; Cultural reconstruction and postwar nationalism. ER -