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An ‘Age of Commerce’ in Southeast Asian History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Anthony Reid
Anthony Reid
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Australian National University
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Since the end of World War II the study of Southeast Asia has changed unrecognizably. The often bitter end of colonialism caused a sharp break with older scholarly traditions, and their tendency to see Southeast Asia as a receptacle for external influences—first Indian, Persian, Islamic or Chinese, later European. The greatest gain over the past forty years has probably been a much increased sensitivity to the cultural distinctiveness of Southeast Asia both as a whole and in its parts. If there has been a loss, on the other hand, it has been the failure of economic history to advance beyond the work of the generation of Furnivall, van Leur, Schrieke and Boeke. Perhaps because economic factors were difficult to disentangle from external factors they were seen by very few Southeast Asianists as the major challenge.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 1990 , pp. 1 - 30
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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