A Traveller's History of Southeast Asia
by J.M. Barwise

From the Traveller's History series.

A Traveller's History of Southeast Asia is a lucid and concise introduction to the histories of the modern states of Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Singapore, Brunei, and East Timor, providing an essential guide for both tourists and the general reader. It spans the history of the region from "Java Man" some one million years ago to the development of the high-tech, skyscraper cities of the new millennium.

Following chapters on the earliest human history of Southeast Asia, the authors carry the reader through the classical kingdoms. Southeast Asia's colonization by the European imperial powers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the struggles for independence, the dramatic and tragic events of the post-independence era such as the Vietnam War, and the remarkable successes and failings of the region's recent economic development Above all, A Traveller's History of Southeast Asia shows how the region's soul has been preserved against tremendous external pressures.

HD4395    A Traveller's History of Southeast Asia               $14.95

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