History of Southeast Asia

A history of the lands between India, China and Australia.

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Episode 20, Eighteenth Century Burma & Siam

Posted May 1, 201700:43:49

This episode covers the latest round in the ongoing conflict between Myanmar and Thailand, or as they were called before the twentieth century, Burma and...

Episode 19, The First Two Divisions of Vietnam

Posted April 17, 201700:49:52

This episode covers Vietnam in the early modern era, from 1471 to 1819. Twice during this period, Vietnam was divided between rival factions, from 1527...

Episode 18, Arakan and All That

Posted April 1, 201700:44:04

Today's episode wraps up coverage of seventeenth-century events in Burma, Siam and Laos, with some really obscure stories about two kingdoms that no longer...

Episode 17, The Dutch East India Company

Posted March 16, 201700:38:39

In recent episodes we have met two European nations that explored and exploited parts of Southeast Asia, Portugal and Spain. Now this episode introduces...

Episode 16, The Elephant Wars, Part 2

Posted March 1, 201700:34:41

This episode finishes what we started covering last time, the wars on the Southeast Asian mainland in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Whereas...