Nations and States in Southeast Asia

This reflective and provocative book outlines the emergence of the nation-states of modern Southeast Asia. It considers various ways of looking at Southeast Asian history combining narrative analysis and discussion. The book''s three sections give a broad historical overview of individual nation-states reflect on significant problems in understanding Southeast Asia and explore the current state of writing Southeast Asian history. This book reflects a lifetime''s scholarship and will become a major interpretive synthesis of modern Southeast Asia.