Warring Societies of Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia_ Local Cultures of Conflict Within a Regional Context

Introduction

more widely while also reaffirming the diversity of the region. The em-
phasis on the differences within the region and between periods within
local areas, we hope, will make the region more accessible to compara-
tive work on warfare with other non-Western areas that will not remain
fixated on the handful of tropes for which Southeast Asian warfare has
been more commonly known in the historiography.