The Mekong
A very international river - Introduction
Oc Eo: Early medieval civilisation in Mekong delta
Medieval Khmer Empire in Cambodia
French Indo China: Laos, Cambodia, & Vietnam
Vietnam War 1955-75
The horror of The Cambodian Genocide 1975=99
There are lots of individual histories on, for example, French Colonialism, Vietnam War, and The Khmer Rouge
BUT as we are focussed on the river I will give one book on the river and its history:
The Mekong by Milton Osborne
The Rise and Fall of The Byzantine Empire Founding of Constantinople on site of older Byzantium Fall of Western Roman Empire, Survival of Eastern Empire (Byzantine) Christianity later divides between
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