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SOUTHEAST ASIA HANDBOOK
The Background of underlying complexity and contemporary change, the editor's goal here has been, not to say all that could be said about the region, but to discuss a defined range of facts and issues, as concisely, accessibly, and evenhandedly as possible.
Editor's Name
Map: National Frontiers and Capitals Cities in Southeast Asia
I History and Context
1 Entrepot of Trade: Southeast Asia until the 1870s
2 Imperial Frameworks: Southeast Asia from 1870 to 1957
3 World Economies: Southeast Asia Since the 1950s
II Nation States
4 Thailand
5 Malaysia
6 Singapore
7 Brunei
8 The Philippines
9 Indonesia
10 East Timor
11 Vietnam
12 Cambodia
13 Laos
14 Burma
III Facing the New Century
15 Nation-Building,Ethnicity, and Politics
16 Environment, Resources, and Hazards
17 Agriculture
18 Financial Services and the Asian Crisis
IV Relations with the wider World
19 Relations with Northeast Asia
20 World in Collision : Southeast Asia and the West
Appendices
Chronology
Glossary
Personalities
Political and Economics Institutions
Ethnic Groups
Bibliography
Index
Cold War Monks : Buddhism and America's Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia
Chinese Medicine Men : Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia
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