The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia : Volume 1, Part 1, from Early Times to C.1500

Professor of History Nicholas Tarling
Cambridge University Press
9780521663694
0-521-66369-5

In these four volumes, now published in paperback, twenty-one scholars of international reputation consider the whole of mainland and island Southeast Asia from Burma to Indonesia. Volume 1 charts Southeast.

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Asia's beginnings, from prehistory to c. 1500. Accounts are given of Southeast Asia's early development, based on archaeological and anthropological evidence; the establishment of kingdoms such as Sri Vijaya, Champa, Angkor, Pagan, and of the Vietnamese state; and the period's economic history, religions and popular beliefs.