Hoang Anh Tuan is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Vietnam National University-Hanoi, VietnamOoi Keat Gin is Professor of History at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

"Editors Gin and Tuân bring together a somewhat eclectic collection of 14 essays on early modern Southeast Asian history. The range of contributors is laudable, with chapters included from younger scholars based in Southeast Asia, such as Nordin Hussin, as well as from such noted historians as Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Andaya, and Nicholas Tarling. (…) The book’s contributors do indeed shed more light on particular aspects of early modern history in the region, which continues to be understudied and to some extent still unknown. Useful for research libraries with collections on Southeast Asian history." -- S. Maxim, University of California, Berkeley, for CHOICE

• Introduction Part 1: Diplomatic and Inter-State Relations 1. Status and Security in Early Southeast Asian State Systems 2. Alexandrowicz Re-visited: Strange Legal Parallels in the Indian Ocean and Western European World Systems, 1500-1800 3. The Phrakhlang Ministry of Ayutthaya: Siamese Instrument to Cope with the Early Modern World Part 2: Interactions and Transactions 4. Applying the Seas Perspective in the Study of Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period 5. Borneo in the Early Modern Period ca. Late Fourteenth to ca. Late Seventeenth Centuries 6. Another Past: Early Modern Vietnamese Silk Production and Export in Global Perspective 7. Vân Đồn: The Making of an International Trading Port in Pre-Modern Vietnam 8. Batu Sawar, Johor: A Centre of Regional Trade in the Early Seventeenth Century 9. Urban Growth and Municipal Development of Early Penang Part 3: Kingship and State Systems 10. Revisiting "Kingship" in Early Modern Southeast Asia: Men of Prowess and Women of Piety in Seventeenth Century Aceh 11. Catching and Selling Siamese Elephants in the Seventeenth Century: A Preliminary Study 12. Cham-Viet Relationship in Binh Thuan under Nguyen Rule from the Late Seventeenth Century to Mid-eighteenth Century Part 4: Indigenizing Christianity and Islam 13. The Glocalization of Christianity in Early Modern Southeast Asia 14. The Passing of Rice Spirits: Cosmology, Technology, and Gender Relations in Colonial Philippines