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Southeast Asia to c. 1750

Peter Bellwood, Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago (1985), is detailed and thought-provoking. Charles Higham, The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia: From 10,000 bc to the Fall of Angkor (1989), complements Bellwood, with more focus on archaeology. Collections of essays include David G. Marr and A.C. Milner (eds.), Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries (1986); and R.B. Smith and W. Watson (eds.), Early South East Asia (1979). Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1680, 2 vol. (1988–93), provides a broad-based glimpse of the region that previously had not been available. Donald F. Lach, Southeast Asia in the Eyes of Europe: The Sixteenth Century (1968), contains a selection of travel accounts by Europeans. Anthony Reid and Lance Castles (eds.), Pre-colonial State Systems in Southeast Asia (1975), includes several specific treatments. The classic by M.A.P. Meilink-Roelofsz, Asian Trade and European Influence in the Indonesian Archipelago Between 1500 and About 1630 (1962), is still useful. Lorraine Gesick (ed.), Centers, Symbols, and Hierarchies (1983), is a collection of essays on the region’s classical states.