A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads (Blackwell History of the World)

A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilizations and religious patterns up to the present day.

• Incorporates environmental, social, economic, and gender issues to tell a multi-dimensional story of Southeast Asian history from earliest times to the present
• Argues that while the region remains a highly diverse mix of religions, ethnicities, and political systems, it demands more attention for how it manages such diversity while being receptive to new ideas and technologies
• Demonstrates how Southeast Asia can offer alternatives to state-centric models of history more broadly

• 2016 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Textbook in the Humanities

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• The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today: Ethnography, Ethnology, and Change in a Complex Region
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• A History of India
• Paradise of the Blind: A Novel
• A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830
• India in the World Economy: From Antiquity to the Present (New Approaches to Asian History)
• Voices of Southeast Asia: Essential Readings from Antiquity to the Present
• Rebranding Islam: Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru (Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center)