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Announcing an e-Journal on the Singapore E-Press:
The Heritage Journal, from the National Heritage Board, Singapore
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Secret Trades, Porous Borders
Eric Tagliacozzo Winner of the 2007 Harry J. Benda PRIZE!
The Business of Politics and Ethncity
Sikko Visscher
Polarising Javanese Society
M. C. Ricklefs
The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao
James Anderson
Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects
Laurie J. Sears (editor)
Of Self and Injustice
C. W. Watson
A World of Water
Peter Boomgaard (editor)
History in Uniform:
Military Ideology and the Construction of Indonesia's Past
Katharine E. McGregor
Uncovering Southeast Asia’s Past:
Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists
Elizabeth A. Bacus, Ian C. Glover & Vincent C. Pigott (editors)
Seventeenth-century Burma and
the Dutch East India Company, 1634-1680
Wil O. Dijk
They (the Dutch) came to Burma, traded and left... find out why. Includes a CD Rom containng valuable primary sources for researchers!
Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma
Judith L. Richell
"...a pivotal, founding contribution to modern scholarship on the history of population, disease and medical practice in Burma..." --Ian Brown, SOAS.
To’ Janggut: Legends, Histories, and Perceptions of the 1915 Rebellion in Kelantan
Cheah Boon Kheng
A familiar Malay tale re-examined
Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
in the Modern Malay World
Joel S. Kahn
Challenges the conventional image of Malays
Colonial Spectacles: The Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies at the World Exhibitions, 1880–1931
Marieke Bloembergen. Translated By Beverely Jackson
Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma
Mary P. Callahan Winner of the BENDA PRIZE 2006!
"Ground breaking...essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the complex sociopolitical problems of this deeply troubled land."
--Martin Smith, Critical Asian Studies
Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem
Anthony Reid (editor)
Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts
Craig J. Reynolds
An engagingly-written book on how Thai history is written in the past, how it shapes Thai's understanding of their kingdom and how outsiders can know it.
Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia 1996–1999
Jemma Purdey
Penang Trams, Trolleybuses & Railways: Municipal Transport History, 1880s–1963
Ric Francis And Colin Ganley
Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire
Paul H. Kratoska (ed)
Nature and Nation: Forests and Development in Peninsular Malaysia
Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-wells
A detailed history of forest science in Peninsular Malaysia, and how the country's rapid economic development has impacted the use and management of resources such as forests.
Britain, Southeast Asia and the Impact of the Korean War
Nicholas Tarling
This book discusses Britain's policy towards Southeast Asia from 1950-55 when the balance of power was crucially affected by the Korean War.
Transforming Lives: NUS celebrates 100 Years of University Education in Singapore
National University Of Singapore
In celebration of NUS's place in tertiary education in Singapore.
Tana Toraja: A Social HIstory of An Indonesian People
Terance W. Bigalke
This ambitious, multifaceted study traces the history of Tana Toraja over more than a century, from 1870, forty years before the Dutch took control of the highlands, to the 1990s.
The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History
Norman G. Owen (editor)
A long-awaited single-volume history of this complex region
Malay Nationalism before UMNO: The Memoirs of Mustapha Hussain
Mustapha Hussain
Insun Sony Mustapha (translator). K.s. Jomo (editor)
an extraordinary memoir from the man who could easily have been President of the United Malays Nationalist Organization. A must-read for those interested in Malay nationalism in Malaysian history.
Histories, Cultures, Identities: Studies in Malaysian Chinese Worlds
Sharon A. Carstens
Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th Century West Java
Mikihiri Moriyama
Print culture was the key carrier of modernity for West Java's 30 million speakers of Sundanese. This important study examines the development of this print culture in the 19th century.
Beginning to Remember: The Past in the Indonesian Present
Mary S. Zurbuchen
The many ways in which Indonesians have dealt with memory, its formation and its manipulation, as the nation emerges from authoritarian rule.
Locating Southeast Asia: Geographies of Knowledge and Politics of Space
Paul Kratoska, Henk Schulte Nordholt And Remco Raben (editors)
Is the idea of 'Southeast Asia' even relevant any longer?
Water Frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880
Nola Cooke And Li Tana
An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra
Anthony Reid
his book is the fruit of 40 years' study of Sumatran history, from one of the most important historians of Southeast Asia.
Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory
Christoph Giebel
An important re-evaluation of the official history of the Vietnamese Communist Party - and the process of nationalist mythmaking in Vietnam.
Dialogues with Chin Peng: New Light on the Malayan Communist Party
C.c. Chin & Karl Hack (editors)
Chin Peng speaks, not through a memoir, but in dialogue with scholars and students of the MCP and the Malayan Emergency. A fascinating view of history as dialogue and debate.
Guns of February: Ordinary Japanese Soldiers' Views of the Malayan Campaign and the Fall of Singapore 1941-42
Henry Frei
A brilliant read, this book brings to life the fateful events of 1941 and 1942 in Malaya and Singapore, helping us to begin to understand the Japanese experience, their pride and their shame. «Frei is a great Western historian who really understood Japan and the Japanese.»
- Hara Fujio
Contesting Malayness: Malay Identity Across Boundaries
Timothy P. Barnard, Editor
What is it to be Malay? The answer may be simple or complex from any individual point-of-view, but this book provides the historical background to the changing ways this question has been asked -- and answered -- over the years.
The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on Decolonization
Marc Frey, Ronald W. Pruessen & Tan Tai Yong (eds)
New perspectives on Southeast Asia's decolonization, from scholars mostly based in the region, and taking advantage of previously classified archives from Europe and the US.
The Indonesian Revolution and the Singapore Connection, 1945-1949
Yong Mun Cheong
A connection that continues to be relevant (and controversial) in the 21st century
The Singapore River: A Social History 1819-2002
Stephen Dobbs
For most of its history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River. Cross-disciplinary in nature, and full of lively detail, this book looks at the transformation of the River and the livelihoods of the people who worked it as a key to understanding the transformations of the modern city.
Red Star Over Malaya: Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation: 1941-1946 (3rd edition)
Cheah Boon Kheng
«...a very good book and an important contribution to Malaysian historical scholarship. The author has handled a difficult and unpleasant subject with tact and skill. The book deserves to be read by all serious students of Malaysia.»
J. Norman Parmer, Pacific Affairs
Tensions of Empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolonial World
Ken'ichi Goto
Southeast Asia's Japanese interlude, from one of Japan's leading scholars.
Earthenware in Southeast Asia
John Miksic, Editor
This important collection helps build the material culture framework for creating a more nuanced image of the cultural history of pre- and early historic Southeast Asia.
Surabaya, City of Work: a Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000
Howard W Dick
A highly readable economic and social history of one of Indonesia's most fascinating cities.
Chinese Migrants Abroad: Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora
Michael W Charney, Brenda S A Yeoh & Tong Chee Kiong, Eds.
The study of the Chinese overseas has become a global enterprise. This collection brings together some of the most important recent work.
Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore
James F. Warren
History from below: a highly innovative study on the life of the coolies of colonial Singapore.
Ah Ku and Karayuki-San: Prostitution in Singapore 1880-1940
James F. Warren
An original, affecting study of the group of workers perhaps most marginalized in the memories of Singapore's growth and development over the last 120 years.
«together with Rickshaw Coolie, the most original and important books published on the history of Singapore since the Second World War»
-Prof John Bastin
Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment
Brenda S. A. Yeoh
«What a splendid book this is!»
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Malayan Chinese and China: Conversion in Identity Consciousness: 1945-1957
Fujio Hara
Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine
Alan K. L. Chan, Gregory K. Clancey & Hui-chieh Loy (eds.)
The history of science in East and Southeast Asia.
Innermost Borneo: Studies in Dayak Cultures
Bernard Sellato
Cross-disciplinary essays on inland Borneo.
Iranun and Balangingi: Globalisation,
Maritime Raiding and the Birth of Ethnicity
James F. Warren
The second installment in Warren's influential Sulu Zone project: "the major questions which it raises...demand the attention of all serious students of Southeast Asian history." (Journal of Southeast Asian Studies)
China: Two Decades of Reform and Change
Wang Gungwu & John Wong (eds.)
A Vietnamese Scholar in Anguish: Nguyen Khuyen and the Decline of the Confucian Order, 1884-1909
Tran My-van
The Kuomintang Movement in British Malaya, 1912-1949
C.f. Yong & R.B. Mckenna
The Tragedy of Wanit: A Japanese Account of Wartime Thai Politics
Benjamin A. Batson And Shimizu Hajime
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