Books by Prof Tony Reid (19 June 1939 – 8 June 2025)

Prof Anthony Reid passed away peacefully in Canberra on 8 June, 2025. He was an important author and advisor for NUS Press, starting with our "reboot" as Singapore University Press in 2002. 

Blood of the People was his classical study, was first published by Oxford UP Kuala Lumpur in 1979. We published the second edition in 2014, and it has received at least 500 citations according to data from Google Scholar. An Indonesian Frontier and To Nation by Revolution collected key articles by Tony. Negotiating Asymmetry and Verandah of Violence were edited volumes which Tony marshalled.

Negotiating Asymmetry edited with Zheng Yang-Wen, who was then at NUS, remains important as a prescient look at the strategic realigment that would come with Asia's rise.

And then Tony contributed articles to Water Frontier and Ghosts of the Past, both among the more impactful edited volumes published by NUS Press.