Virginia Matheson Hooker

A readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Malaysia from ancient past to hyper-modern present day. A new title in the Short Histories of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne.

Linking East and West

A Short History of Malaysia

The authors are all specialists in their fields with detailed knowledge of their subjects. The essays touch on current debates about the role of the artist in Indonesian society and discuss recent trends in the various genres.

Culture and Society in New Order Indonesia

New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Malaysia from ancient past to hyper-modern present day.

An internationally recognised authority on Malay literature, Dr Virginia Hooker, describes the evolution of the novel in twentieth-century Malay and the ways in which they mirror the national social changes that have occurred.

Social Change Through the Novel in Malay

Writing a New Society

Greg Fealy

In an era when Islam ostensibly lies at the heart of a volatile nexus of a global campaign of war on terrorism, simplistic notions and dangerous misunderstandings about the cultures and nature of Southeast Asian Islam, in all its variants, are used to inform and justify policies.

A Contemporary Sourcebook

Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia

Ali al-Haji Riau (Raja)

Nineteenth century history of Johor-Riau-Lingga describing the arrival of the Buginese in the Malay world.

Virginia Matheson Hooker

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