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Article: The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History.(Book review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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The emergence of modern Southeast Asia: A new history Edited by NORMAN G. OWEN Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. Pp. 541. Maps, Tables, Notes, Index. doi:10.1017/S0022463406240992
This is a text that is difficult to characterise. While its subtitle claims that the work is a 'new history', much remains more or less unchanged from its earlier incarnation (David Joel Steinberg, ed., In search of Southeast Asia: A modern history [Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985]), including many of the contributing authors. At the same time, it is also clear that this new version has undergone enough revisions and reinterpretations, even by some of those same ...