R.B. Smith was Professor of the International History of South-East Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he taught from 1962-2000. His works include Vietnam and the West (1971); and the three volume An International History of the Vietnam War (1983, 1985, 1990).Beryl Williams is Emeritus Reader in History, University of Sussex, UK. She taught at Sussex from 1963-2003, and her publications include The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 (1987) and Lenin (2000).

• Preface Beryl Williams. Introduction A.J. Stockwell 1. Contrasting Political, Social and Intellectual Perspectives: A Comparison of Vietnam and England in the Fourteenth Century 2. England and Vietnam in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: An Essay in Historical Comparison 3. Thailand and Vietnam: Some Thoughts Towards a Comparative Historical Analysis 4. The Cycle of Confucianization in Vietnam 5. South East Asian Polities in Global Perspective 1590–1800 6. The Development of Opposition to French Rule in Southern Vietnam 1880–1940 7. An Introduction to Caodaism: Origins and Early History 8. An Introduction to Caodaism: Beliefs and Organization 9. Bui Quang Chiêu and the Constitutionalist Party in French Cochinchina 1917–30 10. The Vietnamese Elite of French Cochinchina 1943

R.B. Smith was Professor of the International History of South-East Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he taught from 1962-2000. His works include Vietnam and the West (1971); and the three volume An International History of the Vietnam War (1983, 1985, 1990).Beryl Williams is Emeritus Reader in History, University of Sussex, UK. She taught at Sussex from 1963-2003, and her publications include The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 (1987) and Lenin (2000).

• Preface Beryl Williams. Introduction A.J. Stockwell 1. Contrasting Political, Social and Intellectual Perspectives: A Comparison of Vietnam and England in the Fourteenth Century 2. England and Vietnam in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: An Essay in Historical Comparison 3. Thailand and Vietnam: Some Thoughts Towards a Comparative Historical Analysis 4. The Cycle of Confucianization in Vietnam 5. South East Asian Polities in Global Perspective 1590–1800 6. The Development of Opposition to French Rule in Southern Vietnam 1880–1940 7. An Introduction to Caodaism: Origins and Early History 8. An Introduction to Caodaism: Beliefs and Organization 9. Bui Quang Chiêu and the Constitutionalist Party in French Cochinchina 1917–30 10. The Vietnamese Elite of French Cochinchina 1943

R.B. Smith was Professor of the International History of South-East Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he taught from 1962-2000. His works include Vietnam and the West (1971); and the three volume An International History of the Vietnam War (1983, 1985, 1990).Beryl Williams is Emeritus Reader in History, University of Sussex, UK. She taught at Sussex from 1963-2003, and her publications include The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 (1987) and Lenin (2000).

• Preface Beryl Williams. Introduction A.J. Stockwell 1. Contrasting Political, Social and Intellectual Perspectives: A Comparison of Vietnam and England in the Fourteenth Century 2. England and Vietnam in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: An Essay in Historical Comparison 3. Thailand and Vietnam: Some Thoughts Towards a Comparative Historical Analysis 4. The Cycle of Confucianization in Vietnam 5. South East Asian Polities in Global Perspective 1590–1800 6. The Development of Opposition to French Rule in Southern Vietnam 1880–1940 7. An Introduction to Caodaism: Origins and Early History 8. An Introduction to Caodaism: Beliefs and Organization 9. Bui Quang Chiêu and the Constitutionalist Party in French Cochinchina 1917–30 10. The Vietnamese Elite of French Cochinchina 1943