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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 Editor in Chief Dan Crissman.



 

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Forsaken Causes
Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos
Ryan Wolfson-Ford
Spring 2024

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Electrifying Indonesia
Technology and Social Justice in National Development
Anto Mohsin
Fall 2023

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Development in Spirit
Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands
Seb Rumsby
Spring 2023

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Dynastic Democracy
Political Families in Thailand
Yoshinori Nishizaki
Spring 2022

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Repossessing Shanland
Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred
Jane M. Ferguson
Fall 2022 (paperback)

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Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar
Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
Fall 2022 (paperback)

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Rise of the Brao
Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia during Vietnamese Occupation
Ian G. Baird
Spring 2022 (paperback)

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Eliciting Care
Health and Power in Northern Thailand
Bo Kyeong Seo
Spring 2020

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Royal Capitalism
Wealth, Class, and Monarchy in Thailand
Puangchon Unchanam
Fall 2021 (paperback)

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Rise of the Brao
Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia during Vietnamese Occupation
Ian G. Baird
Fall 2019

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Philippine Sanctuary
A Holocaust Odyssey
Bonnie M. Harris
Fall 2019

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Of Beggars and Buddhas
The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
Katherine A. Bowie
Fall 2019 (paperback)

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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)

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In Plain Sight
Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand
Tyrell Haberkorn
Spring 2019 (paperback)

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Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850–1945
Daniel F. Doeppers
Spring 2019 (paperback)

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A Reckoning
Philippine Trials of Japanese War Criminals
Sharon W. Chamberlain
Fall 2018

Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850-1945
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Hamka’s Great Story
A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam For Modern Indonesia
James R. Rush
Spring 2016

Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom
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Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom
The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850–1960
Mai Na M. Lee
Spring 2015

The Government of Mistrust
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The Government of Mistrust
Illegibility and Bureaucratic Power in Socialist Vietnam
Ken MacLean
Fall 2013

Voices from the Plain of Jars
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Voices from the Plain of Jars
Life under an Air War
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Edited by Fred Branfman with essays and drawings by Laotian villagers, Foreword by Alfred W. McCoy
Spring 2013

Thailand’s Political Peasants
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Thailand’s Political Peasants
Power in the Modern Rural Economy
Andrew Walker
Spring 2012

The Burma Delta
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The Burma Delta
Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852–1941
Michael Adas
Spring 2011

Revolution Interrupted
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Revolution Interrupted
Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand
Tyrell Haberkorn
Spring 2011

The Floracrats
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The Floracrats
State-Sponsored Science and the Failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia
Andrew Goss
Fall 2010

The Hispanization of the Philippines
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The Hispanization of the Philippines
Spanish Aims and Filipino Responses, 1565–1700
John Leddy Phelan
Fall 2010

Policing America’s Empire
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Policing America’s Empire
The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Alfred W. McCoy
Fall 2009

Amazons of the Huk Rebellion
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Amazons of the Huk Rebellion
Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines
Vina A. Lanzona
Spring 2009

The Social World of Batavia
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The Social World of Batavia
Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia
Jean Gelman Taylor
Spring 2009

An Anarchy of Families
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An Anarchy of Families
State and Family in the Philippines
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy
Fall 2008

Modern Noise, Fluid Genres
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Modern Noise, Fluid Genres
Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997–2001
Jeremy Wallach
Fall 2008

From Rebellion to Riots
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From Rebellion to Riots
Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo
Jamie S. Davidson
Spring 2008

Pretext for Mass Murder
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Pretext for Mass Murder
The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’État in Indonesia
John Roosa
Fall 2006

Viêt Nam
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Viêt Nam
Borderless Histories
Edited by Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid
Spring 2006