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

The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: Volume One, Part One, from Early Times to c.1500 by Tarling, Nicholas. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780521663694.

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 Asias beginnings, from prehistory to c. 1500. Accounts are given of Southeast Asias 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 periods economic history, religions and popular beliefs.