W.G. MILLER was Southeast Asian Studies Librarian at the Australian National University from 1974 to 1997 and a Visiting Fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University from 2004 to 2018. He is the author of British Traders in the East Indies, 1770-1820 (Boydell, 2020).

[Miller's] study recuperates scholarship from earlier decades while also offering a significant amount of detail drawn from an archive of print and manuscript records. . . . The volume is an informative, archivally based, and important contribution to Boydell & Brewer's "Worlds of the East India Company" series.

• IntroductionMerchant friends: country traders and the Malays IPolitical allies: country traders and the Malays IIInadvertant imperialists: country traders and British officialsSmugglers and enemies: country traders and the DutchThe decline of the country trade in the Malay ArchipelagoConclusionA note on sourcesBibliography

W.G. MILLER was Southeast Asian Studies Librarian at the Australian National University from 1974 to 1997 and a Visiting Fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University from 2004 to 2018. He is the author of British Traders in the East Indies, 1770-1820 (Boydell, 2020).

[Miller's] study recuperates scholarship from earlier decades while also offering a significant amount of detail drawn from an archive of print and manuscript records. . . . The volume is an informative, archivally based, and important contribution to Boydell & Brewer's "Worlds of the East India Company" series.

• IntroductionMerchant friends: country traders and the Malays IPolitical allies: country traders and the Malays IIInadvertant imperialists: country traders and British officialsSmugglers and enemies: country traders and the DutchThe decline of the country trade in the Malay ArchipelagoConclusionA note on sourcesBibliography