Using a unique oldânew treatment this book presents new perspectives on several important topics in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Based on original primary research it reinterprets and revises several long-held conventional views in the field covering the period from the classical age to the twentieth century. Chapters share the approach to Southeast Asian history and historiography: namely giving agency to Southeast Asia in all research analysis writing and interpretation. The book honours John K. Whitmore a senior historian in the field of Southeast Asian history today by demonstrating the scope and breadth of the scholarâs influence on two generations of historians trained in the West. In addition to providing new information and insights on the field of Southeast Asia this book stimulates new debate on conventional ideas evidence and approaches to its teaching research and understanding. It addresses and in many cases revises specific critically important topics in Southeast Asian history on which much conventional knowledge of Southeast Asia has long been based. It is of interest to scholars of Southeast Asian Studies as well as Asian History. . Language: English