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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792871003321

Autore

Church Peter

Titolo

Short history of South-East Asia / / Peter Church

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Wiley, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-119-06248-9

1-119-06247-0

Edizione

[Sixth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

959

Soggetti

Southeast Asia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Brunei -- Cambodia -- East Timor -- Indonesia -- Lao PDR -- Malaysia -- Myanmar -- Philippines -- Singapore -- Thailand -- Vietnam.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book will aid readers' knowledge of this region by addressing its historical past and political future. It is based around a prophetic observation of Lee Kuan Yew, the legendary former Prime Minister of Singapore, that "to understand the present and to anticipate the future, one must know enough of the past, enough to have a sense of the history of a people"--