A milestone in US historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear
on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of …

This New History of Southeast Asia aims to succeed to the role played for over half a century
by one of the enduring works of scholarship in this field–A History of South-East Asia by …

For centuries, the Chinese have been intermarrying with inhabitants of the Philippines,
resulting in a creolized community of Chinese mestizos under the Spanish colonial regime …

The occasion for investigating colonial culture and society in the Philippines under Spanish
rule during the nineteenth century began predictably enough. I was teaching English writing …

This book explores contemporary maritime piracy in Southeast Asia, demonstrating the utility
of using historical context in develo** policy approaches that will address the roots of this …

Policymakers and scholars have come to realize that getting food, water, and services to the
millions who live in the world's few dozen megacities is one of the twenty-first century's most …

What binds overseas Chinese communities together? Traditionally scholars have stressed
the interplay of external factors (discrimination, local hostility) and internal forces (shared …

The aim of this article is to draw the attention of historians of empire to one of the most
neglected components of Western imperial systems. Although the Philippines was ruled …

This title was first published in 2002. Presenting a fresh understanding of the construction of
Post-Colonial national identity in the new context of globalization, this text looks at the …

With few exceptions, commentators agree that bandits were a major socio-economic
phenomenon of the nineteenth-century Philippines. Historians and contemporary observers …