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Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, From Angkor Wat to East Timor is the premier and authoritative reference work covering the history of the region, which consists of Myanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines, and East Timor. Organized in a user-friendly, A–Z format, with entries ranging from brief descriptions to expansive essays, this comprehensive, pioneering three-volume work covers archaeology and prehistory, politics and culture, socioeconomics, ethno-history, language, institutions and organizations, wars and conflicts, personalities, geography, religions and folklore, and environment.
A list of the book's 130 contributors reads like a "who's who" of renowned Southeast Asianists, including Barbara Watson Andaya, David Chandler, John Gullick, V. T. King, Milton Osborne, Anthony Reid, Nicholas Tarling, Robert H. Taylor, Anthony Milner, Wang Gungwu, and many others. Writing for a nonspecialist audience, their work presents impeccable scholarship and incisive analysis in a style that is both informative and captivating.
Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
"Southeast Asia is the encyclopedia that will be used for exploring and understanding this geopolitical region for many years … highly recommended for public, academic, and some high school libraries for the broad coverage and generally easy-to-understand articles."
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Booklist
"The editor has accomplished his goal of producing an accessible volume covering an area that is little understood in the West."
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American Reference Books Annual
"Finally, an encyclopedia devoted to the history of a geographic region that has received little attention in reference literature … this user-friendly work is more accessible to the broader audience. Highly recommended for high school, public, and academic libraries."
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Library Journal
"The work affords a broad, authoritative resource for those wanting more on the region than general encyclopedias provide, while guiding sophisticated users to significant literature. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General and academic readers."
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Choice
"The editor … has accomplished a monumental task in pulling together a work conveying such a disparate region. … SInce this is the most current and comprehenisve reference work available on this important region, it is an important acquisition for academic libraries supporting courses and research on Southeast Asia."
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