Southeast Asian History: Essential Readings

Combining chronology and geography reveals that the texts on the Philippines are all from the Spanish colonial period-surely the articulate and rhetorically gifted Filipinos of the twentieth century could have added provocative material to the final section as well! [...]Buddhism and Islam take a back seat to political developments. [...]Greg Fealy's fine survey of Islam in Southeast Asia appears almost as an afterthought at the end of the book.