Further Reading

General Southeast Asia Histories

  1. Dutton, George, ed. 2014. Voices of Southeast Asia: Essential Readings from Antiquity to the Present. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
  2. Lieberman, Victor. 2003–9. Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  3. Owen, Norman, ed. The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  4. Scott, James. 2009. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  5. Tarling, Nicholas, ed.1992. The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  6. Tarling, Nicholas. 2001. Southeast Asia: A Modern History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Country Histories

  1. Baker, Chris and Pasuk Phongpaichit. 2009. A History of Thailand, 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Chandler, David. 2007. A History of Cambodia. 4th edn. Boulder, CO: Westview.
  3. Charney, Michael. 2009. A History of Modern Burma. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  4. Corpuz, O.D. 2007. The Roots of the Filipino Nation. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  5. Dutton, George, Jane Werner, and John Whitmore, eds. 2012. Sources of Vietnamese Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press.
  6. Evans, Grant. 2002. A Short History of Laos: The Land in Between. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
  7. Jamieson, Neil. 1993. Understanding Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  8. Ricklefs, M.C. 1993. A History of Modern Indonesia since c.1300. 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
  9. Stuart-Fox, Martin. 1997. A History of Laos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  10. Taylor, Keith. 2013. A History of the Vietnamese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  11. Thant Myint-U. 2006. The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma. New York: Farrer, Straus & Giroux.
  12. Wyatt, David. 1982. Thailand: A Short History. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Chapters 1–2: Beginnings

  1. Aung-Thwin, Michael. 1985. Pagan: The Origins of Modern Burma. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  2. Bellwood, Peter. 1997. Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  3. Boomgaard, Peter. 2007. Southeast Asia: An Environmental History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.
  4. Coedès, George. 1968. The Indianized States of Southeast Asia, trans. Susan Cowing. Honolulu: East-West Center Press.
  5. Gesick, Lorraine, ed. 1983. Centers, Symbols and Hierarchies: Essays on the Classical States of Southeast Asia. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies.
  6. Ishii Yoneo, ed. 1978. Thailand: A Rice-Growing Society, trans. Peter Hawkes and Stephanie Hawkes. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  7. Higham, Charles. 1989. The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  8. Higham, Charles. 1996. The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  9. Lombard, Denys. 1990. Le carrefour javanais. Essai d’histoire globale. 3 vols. Paris: Editions de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
  10. Pollock, Sheldon. 2006. The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture and Power in Premodern India. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Chapters 3–6: Early Modern Trade, Religion, Hybridities

  1. Andaya, Barbara. 2006. The Flaming Womb. Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  2. Bulbeck, David, Anthony Reid, Lay-Cheng Tan, and Yiqi Wu. 1998. Southeast Asian Exports since the Fourteenth Century: Cloves, Pepper, Coffee, and Sugar. Singapore: ISEAS.
  3. Chaunu, Pierre. 1960. Les Philippines et le Pacifique des Ibériques (XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles). Introduction methodologique et indices d’activité. Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N.
  4. Reid, Anthony. 1988–93. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  5. Ricci, Ronit. 2011. Islam Translated. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  6. Wade, Geoffrey. 2009. China and Southeast Asia: Routledge Library on Southeast Asia, 6 vols. London/New York: Routledge.
  7. Wade, Geoffrey and Sun Laichen, eds. 2010. Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century: The China Factor. Singapore: NUS Press.

Chapters 7–8: Seventeenth/Eighteenth Centuries

  1. Azra, Azyumardi. 2004. The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia: Networks of Malay-Indonesian and Middle Eastern ‘Ulama’ in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
  2. Laarhoven, Ruurdje. 1994. “The Power of Cloth: The textile trade of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1600–1780”. Ph.D. dissertation, ANU.
  3. Parker, Geoffrey. 2013. Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  4. Phelan, J.L. 1959. The Hispanization of the Philippines. Spanish Aims and Filipino Responses 1565–1700. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
  5. Raben, Remco. 1996. “Batavia and Colombo: The Ethnic and Spatial Order of Two Colonial Cities, 1600–1800.” Ph.D. dissertation, Leiden University.
  6. Reid, Anthony and David Marr, eds. 1979. Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Heinemann.

Chapters 9–11: Pre-colonial Polities

  1. Cooke, Nola, Li Tana, and A. Anderson, eds. 2011. The Tongking Gulf through History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  2. Dutton, George. 2006. The Tây Sơn Uprising: Society and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  3. Heidhues, Mary Somers. 2003. Golddiggers, Farmers and Traders in the “Chinese Districts” of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Ithaca: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program.
  4. Reid, Anthony, ed. 1996. Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  5. Reid, Anthony, ed. 1997. The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies: Responses to Modernity in the Diverse States of Southeast Asia and Korea, 1750–1900. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
  6. Thant, Myint-U. 2001. The Making of Modern Burma. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  7. Tran, Nhung Tuyet and Anthony Reid, eds. 2006. Viet Nam: Borderless Histories. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
  8. Warren, James. 1981. The Sulu Zone, 1768–1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery, and Ethnicity. Singapore: NUS Press.
  9. Woodside, Alexander. 1971. Vietnam and the Chinese Model: A Comparative Study of Nguyen and Ch’ing Civil Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Chapters 12–13: Economic and Political Changes, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries

  1. Boomgaard, Peter. 1989. Children of the Colonial State: Population Growth and Economic Development in Java, 1795–1880. Amsterdam: Free University Press.
  2. Brocheux, Pierre and Daniel Hémery. 2009. Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858–1954, trans. Ly Lan Dill-Klein. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  3. Butcher, John and Howard Dick, eds. 1993. The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming: Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State in Southeast Asia. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
  4. Chirot, Daniel and Anthony Reid. 1997. Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe . Seattle: University of Washington Press.
  5. Corpuz, O.D. 1997. An Economic History of the Philippines. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.
  6. Cribb, Robert, ed. 1994. The Late Colonial State in Indonesia: Political and Economic Foundations of the Netherlands Indies 1880–1942. Leiden: KITLV Press
  7. Dick, Howard and Peter Rimmer. 2003. Cities, Transport and Communications: The Integration of Southeast Asia since 1850. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  8. Elson, R.E. 1997. The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia: A Social and Economic History of Peasant Livelihood, 1800–1990s. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
  9. Furnivall, J.S. 1948. Colonial Policy and Practice. A Comparative Study of Burma and Netherlands India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  10. Goscha, Christopher. 1995. Vietnam or Indochina? Contesting Concepts of Space in Vietnamese Nationalism, 1887–1954. Copenhagen: NIAS Books.
  11. McCoy, Alfred and Ed. de Jesus, eds. Philippine Social History: Global Trade and Local Transformations. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
  12. McGee, T.G. 1967. The Southeast Asian City. London: G. Bell.
  13. Myoe, Maung Aung. Unpublished. “The Peacock and the Dragon: Myanmar’s Relations with China in the Monarchical Era.” Singapore: unpublished.
  14. Owen, Norman, ed. 1987. Death and Disease in Southeast Asia: Explorations in Social, Medical and Demographic History. Singapore: Oxford University Press.
  15. Trocki, Carl. 1999. Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750–1950. Abingdon: Routledge.
  16. Wong Lin Ken. 1960. “The Trade of Singapore 1819–69,” JMBRAS 33, part iv.

Chapters 14–15: Twentieth-Century Modernity

  1. Brandon, James. 1967. Theatre in Southeast Asia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  2. Ikeya, Chie. 2011. Refiguring Women, Colonialism and Modernity in Burma. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  3. Marr, David. 1981. Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  4. Reid, Anthony. 2010. Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  5. Reyes, Raquel. 2008. Love, Passion and Patriotism: Sexuality and the Philippine Propaganda Movement, 1882–1892. Singapore: NUS Press.
  6. Schulte Nordholt, Henk, ed. 1997. Outward Appearances: Dressing State and Society in Indonesia. Leiden: KITLV Press.
  7. Tønnesson, Stein and Hans Antlöv. 1996. Asian Forms of the Nation. London: Curzon.

Chapters 16–20: Post-colonial Transformation

  1. Abdullah, Taufik. 2009. Indonesia: Towards Democracy. Singapore: ISEAS.
  2. Anderson, Benedict. 1998. The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World. London: Verso.
  3. Benjamin, Geoffrey and Cynthia Chou. 2002. Tribal Communities in the Malay World: Historical, Cultural and Social Perspectives. Singapore: ISEAS.
  4. Bertrand, Jacques. 2013. Political Change in Southeast Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  5. Cheah Boon Kheng. 2002. Malaysia: The Making of a Nation. Singapore: ISEAS.
  6. Christie, Clive. 2000. A Modern History of Southeast Asia: Decolonization, Nationalism and Separatism. London: I.B. Tauris.
  7. Crouch, Harold. 1988. The Army and Politics in Indonesia. Revised edn. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  8. Drabble, John. 2000. An Economic History of Malaysia, c.1800–1990: The Transition to Modern Economic Growth. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
  9. Feith, Herbert and Lance Castles. 1970. Indonesian Political Thinking, 1945–1965. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  10. Goscha, Christopher. 1999. Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution, 1885–1954. London: Curzon.
  11. Handley, Paul. 2006. The King Never Smiles. A Biography of Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  12. Hefner, Robert. 2000. Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  13. Hill, Hal. 2010. The Indonesian Economy. 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  14. Huff, W.G. 2000. The Economic Growth of Singapore: Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  15. Laothamatas, Anek, ed. 1997. Democratization in Southeast and East Asia. Singapore: ISEAS.
  16. Lindsay, J. and Liem, M., eds. 2011. Heirs to World Culture: Being Indonesian 1950–1965. Leiden: KITLV Press.
  17. McCoy, Alfred, ed. 1980. Southeast Asia under Japanese Occupation. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies.
  18. McCoy, Alfred, ed. 1993. An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
  19. Osborne, Milton. 1994. Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
  20. Pan, Lynn, ed. 1998. The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas. Singapore: Archipelago Press.
  21. Reid, Anthony. 1974. The Indonesian National Revolution, 1945–1950. Hawthorn, Vic: Longmans Australia.
  22. Reid, Anthony, ed. 1996. Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
  23. Reynolds, Craig. 2006. Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
  24. Rigg, Jonathan. 2003. Southeast Asia: The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development. 2nd edn. London: Routledge.
  25. Rosaldo, Renato. 1980. Ilongot Headhunting, 1883–1974: A Study in Society and History. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  26. Skinner, G. William. 1957. Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  27. Suehiro Akira. 1989. Capital Accumulation in Thailand, 1855–1985. Tokyo: Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies.