Article: The contribution of Dr. D. K. Bassett to Brunei historiography.

In a lapidary critique of Southeast Asian historiography, Professor David K. Wyatt (1995) was able to identify only five English-language titles relating to the history of Brunei worthy of recommendation; and not even all of those were entirely satisfactory. Dr. Graham Irwin's Nineteenth Century Borneo: A Study in Diplomatic Rivalry (1955) is the oldest study to warrant the attention of the John Stambaugh Professor of Southeast Asian History at Cornell University. Next, Dr. (later Professor) D. E. Brown's Brunei: The Structure and History of a Bornean Malay Sultanate (1970) remains the "strongest and one of the richest accounts of the Brunei sultanate" and takes "a social ...

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