Starting with a brief overview of key geographic characteristics and cultural-historical patterns, the main emphasis of this course is on the vast historical changes that swept through the crossroads region today known as “Southeast Asia” during the last 150 or so years. How were the wide range of polities – such as sea nomads, hill tribes, sultanates, principalities, and bureaucratic kingdoms – reduced to the ten independent states that remain today? What was the foreign, what was the “indig...

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