Research Catalog

Title

Southeast Asia : past and present / D.R. SarDesai.

Author

SarDesai, D. R.

Publication

Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2013], ©2013.

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Details

Description

xi, 450 pages : maps; 23 cm

Subject

• Southeast Asia > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- The 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 -- The Filipino urge for freedom from Spanish and US rule -- The nationalist movements : Indonesia -- The nationalist movements : Myanmar -- Thailand's constitutional revolution -- The nationalist movements : Vietnam -- The nationalist movements : Malaya, Cambodia, and Laos -- Independent Philippines -- Myanmar : toward integration and democracy -- Thailand : independence at any price -- Indonesia : unity amid diversity -- East Timor : birth of a nation -- Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei -- Nationalism and communism in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos -- Vietnam and Cambodia under communism -- Tsunami, cyclone, and terrorism in Southeast Asia.

ISBN

• 9780813348377 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0813348374 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780813348384 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
• 0813348382 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2012035776
• 99953096864

OCLC

• ocn809421383
• 809421383
• SCSB-5680994

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries