The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia

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 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.