Introduction to Southeast Asia 

Esposito, J. L. (1987). Islam in Asia: an introduction. In J. L. Esposito (Ed.), Islam in Asia : religion, politics, and society  (pp. 10–14). Oxford University Press.

Sangha and society. (1986). In Y. Ishii, Sangha, state, and society : Thai Buddhism in history  (pp. 14–33). University of Hawaii Press.

Geertz, Clifford. (1976). The Religion of Java  (pp. 5–7). University of Chicago Press.

The classical states of Southeast Asia

Michael Aung Thwin. (1976). Kingship, the Sangha, and society in Pagan. In J. K. Whitmore & K. R. Hall (Eds.), Explorations in early Southeast Asian history : the origins of Southeast Asian statecraft (pp. 205–256). University of Michigan Press.

Lynda Norene Shaffer. (1996). Central Java : circa 700 to 1025. In L. Shaffer, Maritime Southeast Asia to 1500 (pp. 65–74). ME Sharpe.

Hassan Shuhaimi bin Nik Abd. Rahman, N. (1990). The Kingdom of Srivijaya as socio-political and cultural entity. In J. Kathirithamby-Wells & John. Villiers (Eds.), The Southeast Asian port and polity : rise and demise (pp. 61–82). Singapore University Press National University of Singapore.

Kingship and power in pre-colonial Southeast Asia

Swearer, D. K. (2010). Buddhist World of Southeast Asia, The [electronic resource] : Second Edition (2nd ed.). State University of New York Press.

Ling, T. (1979). Buddhism, Imperialism and War: Burma and Thailand in Modern History (1st ed., Vol. 11). Routledge. 

Kim, C. (2024). Asia’s heritage trend : examining Asia’s present through its past (M. Zoh, Ed.; 1st ed.). Routledge.

Beemer, B. (2009). Southeast Asian Slavery and Slave-Gathering Warfare as a Vector for Cultural Transmission: The Case of Burma and Thailand. The Historian (Kingston), 71(3), 481–506. 

James, H. (2010). Resources, Rent-Seeking, and Reform in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma): The Economics-Politics Nexus. Asian Survey, 50(2), 426–448. 

Indonesia: Colonialism and Nationalism to Sarekat Islam

Java, 1792-1830 & ava, 1830-1900. (1993). In M. C. Ricklefs, A history of modern Indonesia since c.1300 (2nd ed., pp. 109–130). Macmillan.

J.D. Legge. (1964). Dutch Empire in the Indies, 1870-1942. In J. D. Legge, Indonesia (pp. 83–95). Prentice-Hall.

Shiraishi, T. (1990). The Arena. In T. Shiraishi, An age in motion : popular radicalism in Java, 1912-1926 (pp. 27–40). Cornell University Press.

Assessment Task 1: Oral Presentation is due on Wednesday 31st July before 11.45pm

Malaysia: The British model

Emergence of capitalism, 1874-1920. Part 1: Colonial State Expansion and the Peasant Community & The Emergence of Capitalism 1874-1920 Part II: Peasant Resistance, State Power, and Rubber Cultivation. (1992). In D. Macon. Nonini, British colonial rule and the resistance of the Malay peasantry, 1900-1957 (pp. 43–57). Yale University Southeast Asia Studies.

Ground operations: April 1948 to April 1950 & Malayan emergency: conclusion. (1991). In R. Jackson, The Malayan emergency : the Commonwealth’s wars, 1948-1966 (pp. 27–34). Routledge.

Hussin, N., & Bidin, A. (2013). From a maritime Kingdom to modern johore: An evolution, transformation and metamorphosis of a Malay Kingdom. Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities, 21(1), 271–284.

Philippines: National identity before revolution

The Propagandists’ Reconstruction of the Philippine Past. (1991). In J. N. Schumacher, The making of a nation : essays on nineteenth-century Filipino nationalism (pp. 102–118). Ateneo de Manila University Press.

Jose Rizal. (1924). The indolence of the Filipino. In V. M. Hilario (Ed.), Thinking for ourselves: a collection of representative Filipino essays (pp. 102–124). Oriental Commercial Co.

Vietnamese anti-colonialism

Up from feudalism. (1979). In S. L. Popkin, The rational peasant : the political economy of rural society in Vietnam (pp. 184–242). University of California Press.

Thailand: Thai-ness and national identity

Vella, D. B. (Ed.). (2018). The wild tigers. In W. F. Vella, Chaiyo! : King Vajiravudh and the development of Thai nationalism (pp. 27–52). University of Hawai’i Press; University of Hawaii Press.

Introduction: the presence of nationhood,. (1994). In Thongchai Winichakul., Siam mapped : a history of the geo-body of a nation (pp. 1–19). University of Hawaii Press.

The Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia

McCoy, A. W. (Ed.). (1985). Indonesia: from briefcase to Samurai sword. In Southeast Asia under Japanese occupation (pp. 13–26). Yale University Southeast Asia Studies.

Focus on Nationalist figures: Jose Rizal and Sukarno

Soekarno. (1970). Nationalism, Islam and Marxism. In R. T. McVey, K. H. Warouw, & P. D. Weldon (Eds.), Nationalism, Islam and Marxism (pp. 37–62). Cornell Univ Dep of Asian Studies Southeast Asia Program Modern Indoneisa Project.

Alfredo R. Roces,. (1977). Filipino heritage : the making of a nation (A. R. Roces, Ed.; pp. 1905–1917). Lahing Pilipino Pub ; Distributed by Felta Book Sales.

Guerrero, L. Ma. (Ed.). (1968). The last chapter. In J. Rizal, The subversive = El filibusterismo (pp. 289–299). WW Norton & Company.

Vietnam: Revolution and war

On the Tiger’s Back: The ·united States at War, 1965-1967. (1986). In G. C. Herring, America’s longest war : the United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 (2nd ed., pp. 144–185). Knopf.

Post-War Southeast Asia: Political oscillations in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines

Chandler, D. P., & Steinberg, D. Joel. (Eds.). (1987). Kingdom of Thailand, Republic of Indonesia & Republic of the Philippines. In In search of Southeast Asia : a modern history (Rev. ed., pp. 387–393). University of Hawaii Press.

Aries A. Arugay and Aim Sinpeng. (2017). Varieties of Authoritarianism and the Limits of Democracy in Southeast Asia. In M. Beeson & A. D. Ba (Eds.), Contemporary Southeast Asia : the politics of change, contestation, and adaptation. (Third edition /, pp. 91–110). Palgrave Macmillan.