Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to East Timor

This ambitious set from ABC‐Clio is “intended to be the authoritative reference work on Southeast Asian history, catering to users of high school, public and university libraries” (Preface p. xxi). Its credentials and statistics are certainly impressive. Editor Ooi Keat Gin has a string of recent articles and monographs on the region to his name and is currently Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Sains Malaysia in Penang. The six member editorial advisory board comprises distinguished academics from the USA, UK, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand including Nicholas Tarling editor of The Cambridge History of Southeast...