Southeast Asia

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Including Indonesia and the Philippines.

See also Indian History; Singapore

Recommended:
• Samuel Popkin, The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam [Pre-communism]
• Edward H. Schafer, The Vermillion Bird: T'ang Images of the South
• Gavin Young, In Search of Conrad

To read:
• Larry Berman and Stephen R. Routh, "Why the United States Fought in Vietnam", Annual Review of Political Science 6 (2003): 181--204
• John R. Bowen, Islam, Law, and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning
• Brendan M. Buckley, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Daniel Penny, Roland Fletcher, Edward R. Cook, Masaki Sano, Le Canh Nam, Aroonrut Wichienkeeo, Ton That Minh, and Truong Mai Hong, "Climate as a contributing factor in the demise of Angkor, Cambodia", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (2010): 6748--6752
• N. J. Enfield, Linguistic Epidemiology: Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia
• Michael Freeman, A Guide to Northern Thailand and the Ancient Kingdom of Lanna
• Theodore Friend, Indonesian Destinies
• Pamela Gutman, Burma's Lost Kingdoms: Splendors of Arakan
• Charles Higham
  • The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia
  • The Civilization of Angkor
• Angela Hobart, Urs Ramseyer and Albert Leemann, The People of Bali
• Ben Kiernan, The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975--1979
• J. Stephen Lansing
  • Priests and Programmers
  • Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali
• Paul and Elaine Lewis, Peoples of the Golden Triangle
• Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels [Reviewed by Daniel Little (1, 2)]
  1. Integration on the Mainland: Southeast Asia in the Global Context, c. 800--1830
  2. Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800--1830
• Stephen Morris, Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia
• Anthony Reid
  • Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce [2 vols]
  • Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia
• M. C. Ricklefs, A History of Modern Indonesia since c. 1200
• Geoffrey B. Robinson, The Dark Side of Paradise: Political Violence in Bali [When you search for this on Amazon, it suggests that you "may also be interested in" deals on vacations in Kotabalu... which is true in my case, come to think of it.]
• Steven Runciman, The White Rajahs: A History of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946
• J. C. Scott
  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
  • The Moral Economy of the Peasant
• Bradley R. Simpson, Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960--1968
• David Snellgrove, Angkor Before and After: A Cultural History of the Khmers