[Tlc] new publication

[justinm at ucr.edu]

For readers or German, I am excited to call your attention to
this new publication on Lanna (see below).
Thanks,
justin

Volker Grabowsky, Bevölkerung und Staat in Lan Na: Ein Beitrag
zur Bevölkerungsgeschichte Südostasiens (Population and State
in Lan Na: A Contribution to the population history of
Southeast Asia). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004.
ISBN: 3–447–05111–6, Price: 62 Euro
 
Large parts of Southeast Asia still seemed to be a “land
without peoples” to European travellers at the end of the
nineteenth century. In pre-colonial Indianised Southeast Asia
the control of manpower, not the shortage of land, was the
crucial factor for establishing, consolidating and
strengthening state power. Traditional warfare was determined
by using forced mass resettlements to solve the problems of
chronic shortages of population. The following study takes the
region of Lan Na in today’s North Thailand as an example to
show the influences of demographic factors on political,
social and economic process. For the first time extensive
northern Thai sources have been evaluated systematically to
reconstruct the population history of this region located in
the heartland of Mainland Southeast Asia.

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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu