This is the history of the World Podcast

in Luminati Debrief. And this one is the debrief accompanying our episode on DiViet which is the

medieval name for Vietnam let's say or the high medieval time of Vietnam or Vietnam.

We're going to get on onto the subject of pronunciation. But for this episode I really depended

once again on this fantastic book by Arthur Cottrell which has really helped me with this

series with this mini-series of Southeast Asian episodes a history of Southeast Asia. He has written such a readable and digestible book and it's been my absolute pleasure to mention it over and over again such as the

such as the importance of this book in terms of my research and it's not the only Southeast Asia book I've got but I've got another

history of Southeast Asia which really focuses a lot more modern times so it hasn't

really been of any use to me for this period, but Arthur Cotrell's work has been fantastic.

And in terms of the books, I have to say that this is probably the one book which I have used and other than that it's really been more web resources and in terms of the web resources I've used I was

really relying a lot on Wikipedia and you know I suppose I make no apology for that because really it

comes to a point where some histories are a little bit scarce and the people that do contribute towards Wikipedia

you're a you it's not too bad to go there because although it's not necessarily an individual authority on the subject, you can

triangulate the information very well.

Not least of all with other Wikipedia pages so by bouncing around in Wikipedia you can get

quite near to the truth and it is handy to be able to rely on other websites as

well so history.com was good for the for the

Chung Sisters rebellion and global security.com was another one which was good discussing the military aspects of Vietnam.

So I really did use Arthur Cultural's book alongside many Wikipedia pages and some other pages, but if you're interested in what pages I used,

primarily the ones that I did sort of take a lot of information from are all listed in the

episode bibliography and if you're interested in that just go to the History of the

World Podcast dot com website it is there in the blog or if you're listening to this episode or

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