Conceptions of State and Kingship in Southeast Asia

Conceptions of State and Kingship in Southeast Asia
Author: Robert Heine-Geldern
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501719254

A study of "the ideological foundations" of the monarchical governments of Southeast Asia, specifically in Hindu-Buddhist cultures, this book examines political thought on the nature of rule.

The World Imagined

The World Imagined
Author: Hendrik Spruyt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2020-07-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108491219

Spruyt takes an inter-disciplinary approach to explain how collective belief systems organized three non-European societies c.1500-1900, and how these polities engaged the European colonial powers.