Warring Societies of Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia : Local Cultures of Conflict within a Regional Context (Nias Studies in Asian Topics)

This volume presents a new approach to the study of warfare in Southeast Asia by abandoning the generalizations made in the conventional literature. Its contributors offer a range of new studies of warfare in local areas, which for the first time lends Southeast Asia to comparative analysis in a way that avoids artificial and misleading regional attributes. It will thus interest scholars and students of Asian history as well as armchair historians and military buffs seeking a better understanding of the precolonial roots of modern Southeast Asia.