Culture and the state in late Choson Korea by lh

The last stand of Asian autonomies

Table of Contents: “…Kathirithamby-Wells -- The relationship between political theory and economic growth in Vietnam, 1750-1840 / Alexander Woodside -- The myth of the restoration : Dang-trong influences in the spiritual life of the early Nguyen dynasty (1802-47) / Nola Cooke -- Social and economic developments in eighteenth-century Korea / Martina Deuchler -- Java : a self-critical examination of the nation and its history / Ann Kumar -- New kingdoms, old concerns : Balinese identities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Helen Creese -- 'Wanderers, robbers and bad folk' : the politics of violence, protection and trade in Eastern Sulawesi 1750-1850 / Esther Velthoen -- Lombok under the Mataram dynasty, 1839-94 / Alfons van der Kraan -- Reform tendencies in nineteenth-century Vietnam / Vu Minh Giang -- History and directionality in the early nineteenth-century Tai world / David Wyatt…”