Introduction: in search of Southeast Asian history Norman G. Owen Part 1: Political History 2. Resources, Rituals, and Realms: the premodern polities John K. Whitmore 3. The Colonial Intrusion: boundaries and structures Remco Raben 4. Gradations of Colonialism in Southeast Asia’s "In-between" Places Thongchai Winichakul and Eric Tagliacozzo 5. Colonizing Minds and Bodies: schooling in colonial Southeast Asia Peter Zinoman 6. Nationalism and Other Impulses of the Colonial Era Norman G. Owen 7. Southeast Asia from the Japanese Occupation to Independence Paul H. Kratoska 8. Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity in Southeast Asia: defining communities Maitrii Aung-Thwin 9. The Cold War in Southeast Asia Sophie Quinn-Judge 10. War and Peace between Nations since 1945 Stein Tønnesson 11. Separatism, Civil War, and Genocide: conflicts within nations John Roosa 12. Authoritarianism and Democracy Eva-Lotta E. Hedman Part 2: Economic history 13. Population Growth and Environmental change: a two-track model Peter Boomgaard 14. Nature, Culture, and the Pre-modern Economy of Southeast Asia Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells 15. Colonial Capitalism and Economic Transformation Ian Brown 16. Migrant Labor and Welfare in Southeast Asia Amarjit Kaur 17. Contemporary Capitalism and the Rise of the "Tigers." Anne Booth 18. Socialism and Underdevelopment in Southeast Asia Tuong Vu 19. Globalization and its Discontents in Southeast Asia Gerry van Klinken Part 3: Social and cultural history 20. Islam in Modern Southeast Asian History Muhamad Ali 21. Modern Buddhism Southeast Asia Anne Hansen 22. Christianity in Modern Southeast Asia Barbara Watson Andaya 23. Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asian History Raquel A. G. Reyes 24. Finding Women in Southeast Asian history Jean Gelman Taylor 25. Ethnicity in Precolonial and Colonial Southeast Asia Leonard Y. Andaya 26. Ethnicity in Postcolonial Southeast Asia Sunil Amrith 27. Chinese Economic Predominance in Southeast Asia: a long-term perspective Kwee Hui Kian 28. Performance in Southeast Asian History. Tony Day and Sarah Weiss 29. Constructing Southeast Asian Pasts: a new retrospective Patricia Pelley
Biography
Norman G. Owen is an Honorary Professor of the University of Hong Kong. His previous publications include Prosperity without Progress: Manila Hemp and Material Life in the Colonial Philippines (1984) and The Bikol Blend (1999), and he edited The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History (2005).
