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Education and Career
BA (1960), MA (1961), Victoria University of Wellington
Ph.D. in History (1965), Cambridge University,
Lecturer in History, University of Malaya, 1965-70
Fellow & Senior Fellow, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1970-1989
Professor, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1989-1999.
Professor of History and Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA, 1999-2002
Director, Asia Research Institute, NUS, since 2002.
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Honors
FAHA (Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities), 1987-
Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 1997-
Academic Prize of the 13th Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes, 2002.
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Publications
The Contest for North Sumatra: Atjeh, the Netherlands and Britain, 1858 1898. Kuala Lumpur, OUP/UMP, 1969. Indonesian translation forthcoming.
The Indonesian National Revolution, 1945 1950. Hawthorn, Vic. Longmans Australia, 1974. Indonesian translation 1996.
The Blood of the People: Revolution and the End of Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra. Kuala Lumpur, OUP, 1979. 288 pp. Indonesian translation 1986.
Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450 1680. Vol.I: The Lands below the Winds. 1988. 275 pp.; Vol.II: Expansion and Crisis, 1993, 390 pp. New Haven, Yale University Press.
- Southeast Asia edition Trasvin Publications [Silkworm Books], Chiang Mai, 1995
- Indonesian translation Jakarta, Yayasan Obor, 1992-99;
- Japanese translation Tokyo, Hosei University Press, 1997-2001.
- Thai translation, Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2004
Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1999; 290pp. Indonesian Translation 2004.
An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and other Histories of Sumatra (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2004).
B. BOOKS EDITED
[with Lance Castles], Pre Colonial State Systems in Southeast Asia: the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Bali Lombok, South Celebes. Monograph 6 of Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Kuala Lumpur, 1975. Reprinted 1979.
[with David Marr], Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia. Singapore, Heinemann for ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series, 1979.
reprinted 1983; Indonesian translation 1983.
Reid, Slavery, Bondage and Dependency in Southeast Asia. St Lucia, Queensland University Press, 1983.
US edition New York, St Martin's Press, 1983.
[With Oki Akira], The Japanese Experience in Indonesia: Selected Memoirs of 1942 1945. Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Center for Inter¬national Studies, 1986. 411 pages.
Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era: Trade, Power, Belief. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1993, 286pp.
The Making of an Islamic Political Discourse in Southeast Asia, Melbourne, Monash University Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, 1993, 132pp.
Witnesses to Sumatra: A Traveller's Anthology, Singapore, OUP, 1994, 314pp.
Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese, in Honour of Jennifer Cushman, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1996, 221pp.
The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies: Responses to Modernity in the Diverse States of Southeast Asia and Korea, 1750-1900. Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997.
[With D. Chirot], Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.
[With D. Kelly], Asian Freedoms: The Idea of Freedom in East and Southeast Asia. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
[With H. Chambert-Loir], The Potent Dead: the cult of saints, ancestors and heroes in modern Indonesia. Sydney: Allen & Unwin for ASAA, and Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002.
Southeast Asian Studies: Pacific Perspectives (Tempe: Arizona State University Program for Southeast Asian Studies, 2003).
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