Title: Southeast Asia, past & present /
Authors: SarDesai, D. R.
Publisher: Westview Press,
Year: 1994
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 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.