title: Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800-1830 (Studies in Comparative World History)
author: Victor Lieberman
description: "Lieberman's book... is extremely well thought out, and the thesis is first-rate.... Every serious scholar of history would do well to have this book on his or her shelf." - Michael Laver, Rochester Institute of Technology, Canadian Journal of History
zlib_text: Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History
  
  Series Editors
  
  Manuel Perez Garcia
  
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
  
  Lucio De Sousa
  
  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan
  
  This series proposes a new geography of Global History research using Asian
  and Western sources, welcoming quality research and engaging outstanding
  scholarship from China, Europe and the Americas. Promoting academic excellence
  and critical intellectual analysis, it offers a rich source of global history
  research in sub-continental areas of Europe, Asia (notably China, Japan and
  the Philippines) and the Americas and aims to help understand the divergences
  and convergences between East and West.
  
  **Advisory Board:**
  
  Patrick O’Brien (London School of Economics)
  
  Anne McCants (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  
  Joe McDermott (University of Cambridge)
  
  Pat Manning (Pittsburgh University)
  
  Mihoko Oka (University of Tokyo)
  
  Richard Von Glahn (University of California, Los Angeles)
  
  Bartolo