New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies
Series Editors: Alfred W. McCoy, Ian G. Baird, Katherine A. Bowie, and Anne Ruth Hansen
Associate Editors: Warwick H. Anderson, Ian Coxhead, Michael Cullinane, Paul D. Hutchcroft, and Kris Olds
New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies publishes academic books that focus on historical and contemporary problems in this dynamic region, from local issues through global interconnections. While the series as a whole covers cultural, economic, environmental, political, and social issues, individual titles aspire to the fine-grained research and theoretical innovation long associated with scholarship on Southeast Asia. Editorial work is a collaborative effort between the University of Wisconsin Press and the University’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies, a National Resource Center that has promoted the study of this region for forty years.
Please send all inquiries to UW Press Senior Acquisitions Assistant Jacqueline Krass.
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Casebound $89.95 S
ISBN 9780299348601
Forsaken Causes
Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos
Ryan Wolfson-Ford
“An important contribution to our understanding of Laos and anticommunism in Southeast Asia, and a needed correction to Cold War histories that tend to focus on the superpowers. A story of a fallen republic that is still important to tell.”
—Christopher Goscha, author of The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam
Casebound $79.95 S
ISBN 9780299345402
Electrifying Indonesia
Technology and Social Justice in National Development
Anto Mohsin
“A groundbreaking study of electrification as nation building in postcolonial Indonesia. Mohsin sheds light on how electrification became bound up with negotiations about the meanings of social justice and the hopes of postcolonial Indonesian society. This book is a welcome addition to the growing STS literature on Southeast Asia.”
—Suzanne Moon, author of Technology in Southeast Asian History
Casebound $79.95 S
ISBN 9780299342302
Development in Spirit
Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands
Seb Rumsby
“In this stimulating study, Rumsby shows how Christianity offers the Hmong in northwest Vietnam autonomous resources for engaging with state-directed modernization. Empowered by their faith, the people of this uplands minority have charted a path to development that promises prosperity and coexistence with the state on their own terms.”
—Philip Taylor, Australian National University
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Development in Spirit Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands
Seb Rumsby
Spring 2023
Repossessing Shanland Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred
Jane M. Ferguson
Fall 2022 (paperback)
Rise of the Brao
Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia during Vietnamese Occupation
Ian G. Baird
Spring 2022 (paperback)
Eliciting Care
Health and Power in Northern Thailand
Bo Kyeong Seo
Spring 2020
Royal Capitalism
Wealth, Class, and Monarchy in Thailand
Puangchon Unchanam
Fall 2021 (paperback)
Rise of the Brao
Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia during Vietnamese Occupation
Ian G. Baird
Fall 2019
Of Beggars and Buddhas
The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
Katherine A. Bowie
Fall 2019 (paperback)
Dead in the Water
Global Lessons from the World Bank's Model Hydropower Project in Laos
Edited by Bruce Shoemaker and William Robichaud
Fall 2019 (paperback)
In Plain Sight
Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand
Tyrell Haberkorn
Spring 2019 (paperback)
A Reckoning
Philippine Trials of Japanese War Criminals
Sharon W. Chamberlain
Fall 2018
Hamka’s Great Story
A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam For Modern Indonesia
James R. Rush
Spring 2016
Voices from the Plain of Jars
Life under an Air War
2nd edition
Edited by Fred Branfman with essays and drawings by Laotian villagers,
Foreword by Alfred W. McCoy
Spring 2013
The Burma Delta
Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852–1941
Michael Adas
Spring 2011
The Floracrats
State-Sponsored Science and the Failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia
Andrew Goss
Fall 2010
Policing America’s Empire
The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Alfred W. McCoy
Fall 2009
Viêt Nam
Borderless Histories
Edited by Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid
Spring 2006
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