Part One. The eighteenth century world : The peasant world -- The upland peoples -- Authority and village society -- Provincial powers -- Religious life and leadership -- Traders and markets -- The Buddhist kings -- The Vietnamese emperors -- The Malay sultans -- The Javanese kings -- The Spanish governors -- Part Two. New challenges to old authority : Burma, 1752-1878 -- Thailand, 1767-1868 -- Cambodia, 1779-1863 -- Vietnam, 1802-67 -- The Malay Peninsula to 1874 -- The Archipelago, 1750-1870 -- Java, 1757-1875 -- The Philippines, 1762-1872 -- Part Three. Frameworks for nations : The making of new states -- Bureaucratic and economic frameworks -- Economic transformation, 1870-1940 -- Part Fur. Social change and the emergence of nationalism : Preludes ; Channels of change -- The Philippines -- Burma -- Indonesia -- Vietnam -- Thailand -- Malaya -- Laos and Cambodia -- Part Five. The preoccupations of independence : An overview -- The evolution of new political societies -- The postwar arena: Domestic and international themes -- Cultural reconstruction and postwar nationalism

1. Southeast Asia -- History
2. Southeast Asia