"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