Leaves of the Same Tree: Trade and Ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka

by Leonard Y. Andaya

Despite the existence of about a thousand ethnolinguistic groups in Southeast Asia, very few historians of the region have engaged the complex issue of ethnicity. Leaves of the Same Tree takes on this concept and illustrates how historians can use it both as an analytical tool and as a subject of analysis to add further depth to our understanding of Southeast Asian pasts. Following a synthesis of some of the major issues in the complex world of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824831896
• ISBN13: 9780824831899
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.9"