Integrating Southeast Asia into the Framework of World History: The Period before 1500
Craig A. Lockard
AT THE BEGINNING OF 1980s, in an article surveying World history as a teaching field, I noted that the frameworks of most available texts (many them highly Eurocentric conception and coverage) left little room for any significant examination world areas outside Western Europe, Russia, China, India, ancient Middle East North America (after English colonization). The story line mainstream civilization was, cases, perceived largely European one, with Southeast practically invisible before nineteenth century.' In Anglo-American view pre-1500 history, Asia meant essentially China under Chou, Han, Tang Sung dynasties or India during Maurya Gupta periods, perhaps brief nod to Japan feudalistic era. When did finally appear few paragraphs it was
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