Title: Southeast Asia, past & present /
Authors: SarDesai, D. R.
Publisher: Westview Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Southeast Asia History.
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 Burma, Siam, 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: Burma -- Thailand's constitutional revolution -- The Nationalist movements: Vietnam -- The nationalist movements: Malaya, Kampuchea, and Laos -- Independent Philippines -- Toward the Burmeses way of socialism -- Thailand: independence at any price -- Indonesia: unity amid diversity -- Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei -- Nationalism and communism in Vietnam, Kampuchea, and Laos -- Vietnam and Kampuchea under communism.