Singapore. NUS Press. 2021. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 20 tables, 383pp, index, paperback. "Sea nomads have been part of the economic and political landscape of Southeast Asia for millennia. They have played many roles over the longue-durée: in certain periods proving central to the ability of land-based polities..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. Maps, black and white and colour photographic illustrations, xxviii + 453pp, appendices, glossary, list of place names and geographic terms, bibliography, index, paperback. "Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the turn of the 17th century. He..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2019. 282pp, index, bibliography, paperback. International politics in Southeast Asia since end of the Cold War in 1990 can be understood within the frames of order and an emerging regionalism embodied in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). But order and regionalism are now under seige..... More
Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2016. 12th edition. Illustrated, 376pp, paperback. The first edition of Southeast Asia - An Introductory History was published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in a tantalisingly different part of the world. Subsequent editions (translated into Japanese, Khmer, Korean and..... More
Singapore. Singapore University Press. 2009. Maps, xi + 508 pages, colour photographic illustrations, index, bibliography, paperback. "The fifteenth century is an enigma in Southeast Asian history - too late for classical inscriptions, and generally too early for indigenous texts or European observations. The arrival of European ships, ideas and economies..... More
