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A Concise History of Southeast Asia



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Contents

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Chapter 1: The Initial Formation of Southeast Asia's Nations

Before 800 A.D.


A Geographical Introduction
An Amazing Beginning
The Arrival of the Malays
Indianization
Funan
Other Mon and Malay States
Burma: Pyu, Pegu and Arakan
Early Vietnam
Nan Zhao

Chapter 2: The Age of God-Kings and Monumental Architecture

800 to 1500


Pre-Moslem Indonesia
The Khmers
Pagan
Dai Viet vs. Champa
The Birth of Siam
Ava and Ayutthaya
Lan Xang
The Long Road from Mecca to Manila
Malacca

Chapter 3: The First Centuries of European Penetration

1500 to 1800


The Portuguese Quest for Spices and Souls
Magellan's Expedition
The Spanish Philippines
The Second Burmese Empire
Cambodian Escapade
The Dutch East India Company
Arakan: The Mrohaung Era
The Phaulkon Affair
The Fall of Lan Xang
Two Divisions of Vietnam
Eighteenth Century Burma & Siam

Chapter 4: The West Takes Over

1800 to 1941


The Dutch East Indies
British Malaya, Singapore, and Borneo
French Indochina
Britain Annexes Burma
Philippine Nationalism
America Comes to the Philippines
A New Siam
Nationalism in Burma
Nationalism in the Dutch East Indies
Nationalism in French Indochina

Chapter 5: World War II

1941 to 1945


Japan Strikes
Life Under Tojo's Heel
The Forgotten War in Burma
The Liberation of the Philippines
The Last Acts

Chapter 6: Nationalism Triumphant

1945 to 1957


The Indonesian War of Independence
The Karen Revolt and Other Burmese Problems
The Hukbalahap Rebellion
Thailand: Between Hot and Cold Wars
The First Indochina War
The Malayan Emergency

Chapter 7: The Second Indochina War

1954 to 1975


America's Mandarin
The Three-Sided War in Laos
Escalation
Vietnamization and the Cambodian Diversion
The Phony Peace

Chapter 8: Southeast Asia in the Late Twentieth Century

1975 to 2000 for Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam; 1957 to 2000 for everybody else


Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore: Success Despite the Odds
Burma/Myanmar: A Ne Win Situation
Cambodia: The Killing Fields
Indonesia Under Sukarno
Indonesia Today: Life in the Fasting Lane
Laos: The Land of Feeling Good
The Philippines: A Dictatorship Made for Two
The Philippines: People Power
Thailand: The Unconquered Kingdom
Vietnam: The Phoenix of Asia

© Copyright 2000 Charles Kimball



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