Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin (Editor) - New Perspectives on the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia: Continuing explorations

New Perspectives on the History and Historiography of Southeast Asia

Using a unique oldnew treatment, this book presents new perspectives on several important topics in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Based on original, primary research, it reinterprets and revises several long-held conventional views in the field, covering the period from the classical age to the twentieth century. Chapters share the approach to Southeast Asian history and historiography: namely, giving agency to Southeast Asia in all research, analysis, writing, and interpretation.

The book honours John K. Whitmore, a senior historian in the field of Southeast Asian history today, by demonstrating the scope and breadth of the scholars influence on two generations of historians trained in the West. In addition to providing new information and insights on the field of Southeast Asia, this book stimulates new debate on conventional ideas, evidence, and approaches to its teaching, research, and understanding. It addresses, and in many cases, revises specific, critically important topics in Southeast Asian history on which much conventional knowledge of Southeast Asia has long been based. It is of interest to scholars of Southeast Asian Studies, as well as Asian History.

Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, US. He has published widely on the history of early and modern Burma.

Kenneth R. Hall is Professor of History at Ball State University, US. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient and has published extensively on early South and Southeast Asian history.

The editors thank The University of Michigan Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies for generously providing a publication subsidy for this volume.

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

1. The Police in Occupation Japan

Control, corruption and resistance to reform

Christopher Aldous

2. Chinese Workers

A new history

Jackie Sheehan

3. The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia

Tai Yong Tan and Gyanesh Kudaisya

4. The AustraliaJapan Political Alignment

1952 to the present

Alan Rix

5. Japan and Singapore in the World Economy

Japans economic advance into Singapore, 18701965

Shimizu Hiroshi and Hirakawa Hitoshi

6. The Triads as Business

Yiu Kong Chu

7. Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalism

A-chin Hsiau

8. Religion and Nationalism in India

The case of the Punjab

Harnik Deol

9. Japanese Industrialisation

Historical and cultural perspectives

Ian Inkster

10. War and Nationalism in China

19251945

Hans J. van de Ven

11. Hong Kong in Transition

One country, two systems

Edited by Robert Ash, Peter Ferdinand, Brian Hook and Robin Porter

12. Japans Postwar Economic Recovery and Anglo-Japanese Relations, 19481962

Noriko Yokoi

13. Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 19501975

Beatrice Trefalt

14. Ending the Vietnam War

The Vietnamese communists perspective

Ang Cheng Guan

15. The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession

Adopting and adapting Western influences

Aya Takahashi

16. Womens Suffrage in Asia

Gender nationalism and democracy

Louise Edwards and Mina Roces

17. The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 19021922

Phillips Payson OBrien

18. The United States and Cambodia, 18701969

From curiosity to confrontation

Kenton Clymer

19. Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim

Ravi Arvind Palat

20. The United States and Cambodia, 19692000

A troubled relationship

Kenton Clymer

21. British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 195770

Neo-colonialism or disengagement?

Nicholas J. White

22. The Rise and Decline of Thai Absolutism

Kullada Kesboonchoo Mead

23. Russian Views of Japan, 17921913

An anthology of travel writing

David N. Wells

24. The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese, 19411945

A patchwork of internment

Bernice Archer

25. The British Empire and Tibet

19001922

Wendy Palace

26. Nationalism in Southeast Asia

If the people are with us

Nicholas Tarling

27. Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle

The case of the cotton textile industry, 19451975

Helen Macnaughtan

28. A Colonial Economy in Crisis

Burmas rice cultivators and the world depression of the 1930s

Ian Brown

29. A Vietnamese Royal Exile in Japan

Prince Cuong De (18821951)

Tran My-Van

30. Corruption and Good Governance in Asia

Nicholas Tarling

31. USChina Cold War Collaboration, 19711989

S. Mahmud Ali

32. Rural Economic Development in Japan

From the nineteenth century to the Pacific War

Penelope Francks

33. Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia

Edited by Karl Hack and Tobias Rettig

34. Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market

A J H Latham and

Heita Kawakatsu

35. JapaneseGerman Relations, 18951945

War, diplomacy and public opinion

Edited by Christian W. Spang and Rolf-Harald Wippich

36. Britains Imperial Cornerstone in China

The Chinese maritime customs service, 18541949

Donna Brunero

37. Colonial Cambodias Bad Frenchmen

The rise of French rule and the life of Thomas Caraman, 18401887

Gregor Muller

38. JapaneseAmerican Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 194145

Bruce Elleman

39. Regionalism in Southeast Asia

Nicholas Tarling

40. Changing Visions of East Asia, 194393

Transformations and continuities

R.B. Smith (edited by Chad J. Mitcham)

41. Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China

Christian inculturation and state control, 17201850

Lars P. Laamann

42. Beijing A Concise History

Stephen G. Haw

43. The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War

Edited by Rotem Kowner

44. BusinessGovernment Relations in Prewar Japan

Peter von Staden

45. Indias Princely States

People, princes and colonialism

Edited by Waltraud Ernst and Biswamoy Pati

46. Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality

Global perspectives

Edited by Debjani Ganguly and John Docker

47. The Quest for Gentility in China

Negotiations beyond gender and class

Edited by Daria Berg and Chlo Starr

48. Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia

Edited by Kevin Blackburn and Karl Hack

49. Japanese Diplomacy in the 1950s

From isolation to integration

Edited by Iokibe Makoto, Caroline Rose, Tomaru Junko and John Weste

50. The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia

Spaces of disorder in the Indian Ocean region

Edited by Ashwini Tambe and Harald Fischer-Tin

51. On The Borders of State Power

Frontiers in the greater Mekong sub-region

Edited by Martin Gainsborough

52. Pre-Communist Indochina