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A Concise History of Southeast Asia
Contents
(and malcontents)
Chapter 1: God-Kings of the Far East
Before 1500 A.D.
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A Geographical Introduction |
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An Amazing Beginning |
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The Arrival of the Malays |
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Indianization |
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Funan |
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Other Mon and Malay States |
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Burma: Pyu, Pegu and Arakan |
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Early Vietnam |
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Nan Zhao |
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Pre-Moslem Indonesia |
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The Khmers |
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Pagan |
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Dai Viet vs. Champa |
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The Birth of Siam |
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Ava and Ayutthaya |
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Lan Xang |
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The Long Road from Mecca to Manila |
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Malacca |
Chapter 2: The First Centuries of European Penetration
1500 to 1800
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The Portuguese Quest for Spices and Souls |
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Magellan's Expedition |
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The Spanish Philippines |
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The Second Burmese Empire |
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Cambodian Escapade |
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The Dutch East India Company |
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Arakan: The Mrohaung Era |
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The Phaulkon Affair |
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The Fall of Lan Xang |
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The End of Champa |
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Two Divisions of Vietnam |
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Eighteenth Century Burma & Siam |
Chapter 3: The West Takes Over
1800 to 1941
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The Dutch East Indies |
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British Malaya, Singapore, and Borneo |
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French Indochina |
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Britain Annexes Burma |
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Philippine Nationalism |
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America Comes to the Philippines |
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A New Siam |
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Nationalism in Burma |
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Nationalism in the Dutch East Indies |
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Nationalism in French Indochina |
Chapter 4: Nationalism Triumphant
1941 to 1957
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Japan Strikes |
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Life Under Tojo's Heel |
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The Forgotten War in Burma |
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The Liberation of the Philippines |
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The Last Acts of World War II |
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Nationalism Unleashed |
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The Indonesian War of Independence |
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The Karen Revolt and Other Burmese Problems |
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The Hukbalahap Rebellion |
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Thailand: Between Hot and Cold Wars |
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The First Indochina War |
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The Malayan Emergency |
Chapter 5: The Second Indochina War
1954 to 1975
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America's Mandarin |
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The Three-Sided War in Laos |
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Escalation |
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Vietnamization and the Cambodian Diversion |
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The Phony Peace |
Chapter 6: Southeast Asia in the Late Twentieth Century
1975 to 2000 for Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam; 1957 to 2000 for everybody else
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Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore: Success Despite the Odds |
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Burma/Myanmar: A Ne Win Situation |
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Cambodia: The Killing Fields |
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Indonesia Under Sukarno |
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Indonesia Today: Life in the Fasting Lane |
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Laos: The Land of Feeling Good |
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The Philippines: A Dictatorship Made for Two |
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The Philippines: People Power |
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Thailand: The Unconquered Kingdom |
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Vietnam: The Phoenix of Asia |
© Copyright 2000 Charles Kimball
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