Routledge handbook of Southeast Asian history / edited by Norman G. Owen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : in search of Southeast Asian history / Norman G. Owen -- Resources, rituals, and realms : the premodern polities / John K. Whitmore -- The colonial intrusion : boundaries and structures / Remco Raben -- Gradations of colonialism in Southeast Asia's "in-between" places / Thongchai Winichakul and Eric Tagliacozzo -- Colonizing minds and bodies : schooling in colonial Southeast Asia / Peter Zinoman -- Nationalism and other impulses of the colonial era / Norman G. Owen -- Southeast Asia from the Japanese occupation to independence / Paul H. Kratoska -- Nationalism and postcolonial identity in Southeast Asia : defining communities / Maitrii Aung-Thwin -- The Cold War in Southeast Asia / Sophie Quinn-Judge -- War and peace between nations since 1945 / Stein T�nnesson -- Separatism, civil war, and genocide : conflicts within nations / John Roosa -- Authoritarianism and democracy / Eva-Lotta E. Hedman -- Population growth and environmental change : a two-track model / Peter Boomgaard -- Nature, culture, and the pre-modern economy of Southeast Asia / Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells -- Colonial capitalism and economic transformation / Ian Brown -- Migrant labor and welfare in Southeast Asia / Amarjit Kaur -- Contemporary capitalism and the rise of the "tigers" / Anne Booth -- Socialism and underdevelopment in Southeast Asia / Tuong Vu -- Globalization and its discontents in Southeast Asia / Gerry van Klinken -- Islam in modern Southeast Asian history / Muhamad Ali -- Modern Buddhism in Southeast Asia / Anne Hansen -- Christianity in modern Southeast Asia / Barbara Watson Andaya -- Gender and sexuality in Southeast Asian history / Raquel A.G. Reyes -- Finding women in Southeast Asian history / Jean Gelman Taylor -- Ethnicity in precolonial and colonial Southeast Asia / Leonard Y. Andaya -- Ethnicity in postcolonial Southeast Asia / Sunil Amrith -- Chinese economic predominance in Southeast Asia : a long-term perspective / Kwee Hui Kian -- Performance in Southeast Asian history / Tony Day and Sarah Weiss -- Constructing Southeast Asian pasts : a new retrospective / Patricia Pelley.

"The study of the history of Southeast Asia is still growing, evolving, deepening and changing as an academic field. Over the past few decades historians have added nuance to traditional topics such as Islam and nationalism, and created new ones, such as gender, globalization and the politics of memory. The Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History looks at the major themes that have developed in the study of modern Southeast Asian history since the mid-18th century. Contributions by experts in the field are clustered under three major headings--Political History, Economic History, and Social and Cultural History--and chapters challenge the boundaries between topics and regions. Alongside the rise and fall of colonialism, topics include conflict in Southeast Asia, tropical ecology, capitalism and its discontents, the major religions of the region, gender, and ethnicity"-- Provided by publisher.