| Contents |
The land and its people -- Early kingdoms in mainland Southeast Asia -- Early kingdoms of Sumatra and Java -- The rise of new states: Ayuthaya, Majapahit and Malacca -- European intrusion in the Indian Archipelago: the early phase -- Mainland Southeast Asia: the consolidations of Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam -- The English and Dutch in the East Indies -- British role in the Malay States in the nineteenth century -- Pride and paramountcy: Anglo-Burmese relations in the nineteenth century -- The French in Vietnam and Cambodia -- Thailand remains independent -- Nationalist movements in Southeast Asia: general -- Filipino urge for freedom from Spanish and U.S. rule -- The Nationalist movements: Indonesia - The Nationalist movements: Myanmar -- Thailand's constitutional revolution -- The Nationalist movements: Vietnam -- The Nationalist movements: Malaya, Cambodia, and Laos |
| Contents |
Independent Philippines -- The Burmese way of socialism --Thailand: independence at any price -- Indonesia: unity amid diversity --Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei -- Nationalism and communism in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos -- Vietnam and Cambodia under communism. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-358) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: SarDesai, D. R. Southeast Asia, past & present. 3rd ed. Boulder : Westview Press, 1994 |
| Other title | Southeast Asia, past and present. |
| LCCN | 93031041 |
| ISBN | 0813317053 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813317052 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813317061 (pbk. : alk paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813317069 (pbk. : alk paper) |
