The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia

Volume 1, Part 1 charts Southeast Asia's beginnings, from prehistory to c. 1500.

Nicholas Tarling (Edited by)

9780521663694, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 January 2000

380 pages, 9 maps
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.56 kg

'… invaluable for historians wanting a broad picture of the region … should also be of more general interest.' Danny Yee's Book Reviews

In these four volumes, published in paperback in 2000, twenty-two scholars of international reputation consider the whole of mainland and island Southeast Asia from Burma to Indonesia. Each volume has a new preface which points to the relationships with the other volumes. The prefaces also comment on some of the research into and thinking about the subject undertaken since the original contributions were completed for the first edition. Volume 1, Part 1 charts Southeast 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. The volume also includes an essay on the historiography of Southeast Asia.

1. The writing of Southeast Asian history J. D. Legge
2. Southeast Asia before history Peter Bellwood
3. The early kingdoms Keith W. Taylor
4. Economic history of Southeast Asia Kenneth R. Hall
5. Religion and popular beliefs of Southeast Asia before c. 1500 J. G. De Casparis and I. W. Mabbett.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]