The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History.(Book review) From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: February 1, 2007| Author: Kelley, Liam C. | COPYRIGHT 2007 Cambridge University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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 Pres...

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