Introduction : in search of Southeast Asian history / Norman G. Owen -- Resources, rituals, and realms : the premodern polities / John K. Whitmore -- The colonial intrusion : boundaries and structures / Remco Raben -- Gradations of colonialism in Southeast Asia's "in-between" places / Thongchai Winichakul and Eric Tagliacozzo -- Colonizing minds and bodies : schooling in colonial Southeast Asia / Peter Zinoman -- Nationalism and other impulses of the colonial era / Norman G. Owen -- Southeast Asia from the Japanese occupation to independence / Paul H. Kratoska -- Nationalism and postcolonial identity in Southeast Asia : defining communities / Maitrii Aung-Thwin -- The Cold War in Southeast Asia / Sophie Quinn-Judge -- War and peace between nations since 1945 / Stein Tønnesson -- Separatism, civil war, and genocide : conflicts within nations / John Roosa -- Authoritarianism and democracy / Eva-Lotta E. Hedman -- Population growth and environmental change : a two-track model / Peter Boomgaard -- Nature, culture, and the pre-modern economy of Southeast Asia / Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells -- Colonial capitalism and economic transformation / Ian Brown -- Migrant labor and welfare in Southeast Asia / Amarjit Kaur -- Contemporary capitalism and the rise of the "tigers" / Anne Booth -- Socialism and underdevelopment in Southeast Asia / Tuong Vu -- Globalization and its discontents in Southeast Asia / Gerry van Klinken -- Islam in modern Southeast Asian history / Muhamad Ali -- Modern Buddhism in Southeast Asia / Anne Hansen -- Christianity in modern Southeast Asia / Barbara Watson Andaya -- Gender and sexuality in Southeast Asian history / Raquel A.G. Reyes -- Finding women in Southeast Asian history / Jean Gelman Taylor -- Ethnicity in precolonial and colonial Southeast Asia / Leonard Y. Andaya -- Ethnicity in postcolonial Southeast Asia / Sunil Amrith -- Chinese economic predominance in Southeast Asia : a long-term perspective / Kwee Hui Kian -- Performance in Southeast Asian history / Tony Day and Sarah Weiss -- Constructing Southeast Asian pasts : a new retrospective / Patricia Pelley