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Intended both for students and scholars, this book of personal essays is the first by a group of historians as researchers, writers and teachers specializing in Southeast Asia. The group has not, to our knowledge, as a collective unit at least found any biographers before. They consist of a number of "veterans" who have been invited by Professor Nicholas Tarling to comment on the way they got into Southeast Asian history, its development over the past decades and its future. As result, the essays mainly semi-autobiographical innature, are not only illuminating, but also revel many "trade secrets", why they chose their particular area of specialization, andhow they went on to pusue their research interests, academic careers and writings on their chosen subjects. This is companion volume to New Perspectives and Research on Malaysian History, which is a collection of essays on Malaysian historiography, and is also published by MBRAS to coincide with the celebration of its 130th anniversary in August 2007.

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  1. Title page
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  1. Copyright page
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. p. iii
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  1. Introduction
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  1. A British view of Thailand and Southeast Asia
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  1. Forty-one Years in "the Field": a Backward Glance
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  1. How I got into Malaysian History
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  1. An Amateur Historian
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  1. Chance and Circumstance: A Gradual Journey towards Asian Studies
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  1. Becoming an Indonesianist — but an unbecoming historian
  2. pp. 73-88
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  1. Imagining Southeast Asia
  2. pp. 89-98
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  1. A Life with Vietnam
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  1. The Call of Southeast Asian History
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  1. Serendipity, or discovering Lao history
  2. pp. 115-130
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  1. Down Chancery Lane
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  1. Reflections of a Pioneer
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  1. The Pull of Southeast Asia
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  1. My involvement in Thai historical studies
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  1. ‘Politics in Command’: Studying Chinese Leadership in British Malaya
  2. pp. 187-198
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  1. Select Bibliography
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