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Article: Southeast Asian Warfare, 1300-1900.(Book review)
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Southeast Asian warfare, 1300-1900 By MICHAEL W, CHARNEY Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2004. Pp. 319. Appendices, Illustration, Notes, Bibliography, Index. doi:10.1017/S0022463406230996
This book is a much needed and welcome contribution to the field, as no attempt has been made to update pre-colonial Southeast Asian warfare comprehensively from a regional approach since H. G. Quaritch Wales's Ancient South-East Asian warfare (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1952). It argues for the significance of indigenous and innovative Southeast Asian style warfare and the limited effectiveness of foreign technology (particularly gunpowder) before the nineteenth century.
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