Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History

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).

Introduction: in search of Southeast Asian history Part 1: Political History 2. Resources, Rituals, and Realms: the premodern polities 3. The Colonial Intrusion: boundaries and structures 4. Gradations of Colonialism in Southeast Asia’s "In-between" Places 5. Colonizing Minds and Bodies: schooling in colonial Southeast Asia 6. Nationalism and Other Impulses of the Colonial Era 7. Southeast Asia from the Japanese Occupation to Independence 8. Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity in Southeast Asia: defining communities 9. The Cold War in Southeast Asia 10. War and Peace between Nations since 1945 11. Separatism, Civil War, and Genocide: conflicts within nations John Roosa 12. Authoritarianism and Democracy Part 2: Economic history 13. Population Growth and Environmental change: a two-track model 14. Nature, Culture, and the Pre-modern Economy of Southeast Asia 15. Colonial Capitalism and Economic Transformation 16. Migrant Labor and Welfare in Southeast Asia 17. Contemporary Capitalism and the Rise of the "Tigers." 18. Socialism and Underdevelopment in Southeast Asia 19. Globalization and its Discontents in Southeast Asia Part 3: Social and cultural history 20. Islam in Modern Southeast Asian History 21. Modern Buddhism Southeast Asia 22. Christianity in Modern Southeast Asia 23. Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asian History 24. Finding Women in Southeast Asian history 25. Ethnicity in Precolonial and Colonial Southeast Asia 26. Ethnicity in Postcolonial Southeast Asia 27. Chinese Economic Predominance in Southeast Asia: a long-term perspective 28. Performance in Southeast Asian History 29. Constructing Southeast Asian Pasts: a new retrospective