Table of Contents:
- Mainland : archipelagic parallels and constrasts, c.1750-1850 / Victor Lieberman
- A new phase of commercial expansion in Southeast Asia, 1760-1840 / Anthony Reid
- Chinese pioneering in eighteenth-century Southeast Asia / Carl A. Trocki
- Agriculture as a generator of change in late Choson Korea / Hochol Lee
- Peasant drain and abandoned villages in the Red River Delta between 1750 and 1850 / Yumio Sakurai
- Rural monetization and land-mortgage thet-kayits in Kon-baung Burma / Teruko Saito
- Adapting to political and economic change : Palembang in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Barbara Watson Andaya
- Siak and its changing strategies for survival : c.1700-1870 / J. Kathirithamby-Wells
- The relationship between political theory and economic growth in Vietnam, 1750-1840 / Alexander Woodside
- The myth of the restoration : Dang-trong influences in the spiritual life of the early Nguyen dynasty (1802-47) / Nola Cooke
- Social and economic developments in eighteenth-century Korea / Martina Deuchler
- Java : a self-critical examination of the nation and its history / Ann Kumar
- New kingdoms, old concerns : Balinese identities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Helen Creese
- 'Wanderers, robbers and bad folk' : the politics of violence, protection and trade in Eastern Sulawesi 1750-1850 / Esther Velthoen
- Lombok under the Mataram dynasty, 1839-94 / Alfons van der Kraan
- Reform tendencies in nineteenth-century Vietnam / Vu Minh Giang
- History and directionality in the early nineteenth-century Tai world / David Wyatt