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Historiographical Reflections on the Period 1750–1870 in Southeast Asia and Korea1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2011

Anthony Reid
Anthony Reid
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The historiography with which most of us interact outside our own country or area of expertise is predominantly western and primarily in English. Although increasingly diverse in authorship, this historiography continued to build on traditions and sources which were developed in a less universalist age. It is not surprising the find that the period (roughly mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries) in which most independent countries of eastern Asia sought to disengage from the European-dominated world economy is poorly understood or appreciated. I am conscious of the danger that my own recent work on the Southeast Asian ‘Age of Commerce’ may unintentionally reinforce negative images of those states which reacted to the traumas of the seventeenth century by decreasing their interaction with European traders.

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Itinerario , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 77 - 88
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1994

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