JW3 Rivers Course 17 March

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