Technology in Southeast Asian history
List of FiguresIntroduction: Technology in the Formation of a Region1. The Human Settlement of Southeast Asia2. Trade and Agriculture: Technological Change and Emerging Urban Centers3. Early Modern Commerce and Sociotechnical Resilience: Textile4. Localizing Foreign Technology: Mining and Shipbuildi...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2023
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| Schriftenreihe: | Technology in motion
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| Zusammenfassung: | List of FiguresIntroduction: Technology in the Formation of a Region1. The Human Settlement of Southeast Asia2. Trade and Agriculture: Technological Change and Emerging Urban Centers3. Early Modern Commerce and Sociotechnical Resilience: Textile4. Localizing Foreign Technology: Mining and Shipbuilding in the Early Modern5. Intensification and Expansion: Agriculture in Flux after 14006. Technology and Cultures of Conflict in the Early Modern Period7. Scaling up Warfare: Technology and the Warring State8. Technology, Empire, and NationalismConclusion: Technology in the History of Southeast Asia; Southeast Asia in the History of TechnologyAcknowledgementsGlossaryBibliographyNotesIndex "This book brings together both recent scholarship and classic studies to explore the place of technology in the making of Southeast Asia. By bringing together research that touches on technology with more or less emphasis, from a wide variety of scholars and scholarly approaches it is possible to both understand the richness of material that is already available and to see where areas for further research are needed. The result is a good primer both on the history of technology and the history more generally of this region"-- Explores the role of technology in the larger political and economic fabric of Southeast Asia.In Technology in Southeast Asian History, Suzanne Moon explores the profound entanglement of technology with Southeast Asian politics, social life, economics, and culture over its long history. Moon offers a unique framework for understanding the place of technology in this region and its pivotal role in the emergence of the modern technological world.Synthesizing scholarship from the fields of history, archaeology, and anthropology, Moon examines and links technological stories from prehistory to the mid-twentieth century. She uses analytics in the history of technology-such as circulation, coproduction, and assemblage-to highlight the processes and evolving patterns of technological dynamism that characterize the region. Drawing on research focused on specific technologies, including temple construction, rice agriculture, weaving, and shipbuilding, Moon investigates the interconnectedness of these technologies within the larger political and economic fabric of Southeast Asian history. In contrast with portrayals of Southeast Asia as technologically deficient, Moon demonstrates the richness of this region's technological cultures. She rejects polarizing binaries such as traditional and modern or indigenous and foreign, instead underscoring Southeast Asia's role as a dynamic cocreator of the modern technological world. Technology has contributed to the creation and disruption of social and political orders; shaped engagements across barriers of distance, culture, and language; and produced and reproduced diverse cultures in this region. This narrative of technological change offers students, scholars, and readers critical new perspectives on both technological history and Southeast Asian history |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | x, 196 Seiten Karten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781421446912 978-1-4214-4691-2 |