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Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality: Dealing with Leprosy in the Dutch East Indies, 1816–1942

by Leo van Bergen The story of leprosy in the Dutch East Indies from the beginning of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th reveals important themes in the colonial enterprise across the territory that is today’s Indonesia....

Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia

Edited by C. Michele Thompson, Kathryn Sweet and Michitake AsoWith contributions from Christopher Shepherd, Por Heong Hong, Kathryn Sweet, Nara Oda, Annick Guenel, Vivek Neelakantan, Xiaoping Fang, & John DiMoia A Choice Recommended Title for All Readers For far too long, Southeast Asia...

Affordable Excellence: The Singapore Healthcare Story

By William A. HaseltineWinner of the 2013 Asian Publishing AwardBest Insight into Asian Societies (non-fiction): Excellence Award PDF copy available for free download here And read a new epilogue, written in 2014 here. This is the story of the Singapore healthcare...

Fevered Cities: A History of Dengue Epidemics

Randall M. Packard In Fevered Cities, Randall M. Packard explores the complex and evolving history of dengue fever, the world's most widespread mosquito-borne viral disease. From its early manifestations in the eighteenth century to its current prevalence across more than one...

Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia

Edited by Laurence Monnais and Harold J. CookContributions by Thomas B. Colvin, C. Michele Thompson, Liew Kai Khiun, Annick Guénel, Raquel A.G. Reyes, Liesbeth Hesselink, Ooi Keat Gin, Michael G. Vann, Huang Yu-Ling, Ayo Wahlberg, Chatichai Muksong and Komatra Chuengsatiansup...

Survival Guide to Acute Medicine (Second Edition)

Edited by Lee Kang Hoe Survival Guide to Acute Medicine is a quick reference for emergency medicine, written by various specialists from National University Hospital and National University of Singapore. The handy format provides rapid and succinct information, making it...

Atlas of Medical Parasitology

By Mary Ng Mah Lee and Viqar Zaman The parasitic diseases cause ill health amongst millions of people across the world, particularly those living in the tropics. This CD is an illustrated guide of the subject and covers both parasites...

Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money

By Marjorie Topley, Edited by Jean DeBernardi The volume collects the published articles of Dr Marjorie Topley, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthropology in the postwar period and also the first president of the revived Hong...

Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia

Edited by Hans Pols, C. Michele Thompson & John Harley Warner With contributions from Mitchitake Aso, Francis A. Gealogo, Jenna Grant, Annick Guénel, Liesbeth Hesselink, Junko Iida, Laurence Monnais, Vivek Neelakantan, Anne Marie Rafferty, C. Pierce Salguero, Kathryn Sweet, Rosemary Wall...

Economic Disparity in Rural Myanmar: Transformation under Market Liberalization

By Ikuko Okamoto Market liberalization in Myanmar began in 1988 and had some unanticipated consequences. As farmers began to operate in a context with greatly reduced government control, there was an explosion in the production of green gram, which became...

Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History

By C. Michele Thompson While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social history...

The Economic History of Singapore

Just published! Keen Meng Choy and Ichiro Sugimoto Singapore’s transformation from a trading port to a global city offers a compelling case study in long-term economic change. The Economic History of Singapore presents a detailed account of the city-state’s evolving economic roles,...

Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore's Public Housing

Chua Beng Huat (author of NUS Press' Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore) Shortlisted for the 2026 Euroseas Social Sciences Book Prize The achievement of Singapore’s national public housing program is impressive by any standard. Within a year of...

Khaki Capital: The Political Economy of the Military in Southeast Asia

edited by Paul Chambers and Napisa Waitoolkiat Although Southeast Asia has seen the emergence of civilian rule, the military continues to receive a large chunk of national budgets and, with significant assets and economic activities, often possesses enormous economic clout...

An Economic History of Cambodia in the Twentieth Century

By Margaret Slocomb The course of economic change in twentieth century Cambodia was marked by a series of deliberate "conscious human efforts" that were typically extreme and ideologically driven. While colonization, protracted war and violent revolution are commonly blamed for...

Industrialization in Late-Developing ASEAN Countries: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam

By Naoko Amakawa Late industrializing countries are able to pick strategies for economic development based on the experiences of countries that preceded them. Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (the CLMV countries) were closed off from the international community for many...

Metamorphosis: Studies in Social and Political Change in Myanmar

Edited by Renaud Egreteau and François RobinneContributions by Renaud Egreteau, Alexandra de Mersan, Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Maxime Boutry, Jane M. Ferguson, Jacques P. Leider, Carine Jaquet, Rosalie Metro, Susan Banki, Céline Coderey, Hiroko Kawanami, Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and François Robinne With a young...

Bridges to New Business: The Economic Decolonization of Indonesia

By J. Thomas Lindblad This monograph is the first comprehensive account of the decolonization of the Indonesian economy, a process with a different momentum and timing from the achievement of political independence. It traces the origins of economic decolonization to...

Unequal Thailand: Aspects of Income, Wealth and Power

Edited by Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris BakerContributions by Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker, Duangmanee Laovakul, Dilaka Lathapipat, Wanicha Direkudomsak, Nualnoi Treerat, Parkpume Vanichaka, Nopanun Wannathepsakul, Chaiyon Praditsil, Chainarong Khrueanuan, Ukrist Pathmanand and Pan Ananapibut Extreme inequalities in income,wealth and power lie behind...

The Economic Transition in Myanmar after 1988: Market Economy versus State Control

Edited by Koichi Fujita, Fumiharu Mieno and Ikuko Okamoto For many years Myanmar operated an inward-looking economic system built on import substitution. Ultimately this policy failed, leaving behind inefficient state economic enterprises and widespread poverty. Political unrest in 1988 led...

Till the Break of Day: A History of Mental Health Services in Singapore, 1841-1993 (2nd edition)

By Ng Beng Yeong This book documents the development of psychiatry in Singapore since its humble beginnings in the British colonial period. It should be of interest to health professionals, medical students, historians interested in the development of medicine and...

Central Banking as State Building: Policymakers and Their Nationalism in the Philippines, 1933-1964

By Yusuke Takagi From its creation in 1949 until the 1960s, the Central Bank of the Philippines dominated industrial policy by means of exchange controls, becoming a symbol of nationalism for a newly independent state. The pre-war Philippine National Bank...

Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia’s Peatlands: Ecology, Economy and Society

Edited by Kosuke Mizuno, Motoko S. Fujita and Shuichi KawaiContributions by Retno Kusumaningtyas, Hiromitsu Samejima, Kazuo Watanabe, Tetsuya Shimamura, Kazuya Masuda, Kosuke Mizuno, Kaoru Sugihara, Shigeo Kobayashi, Haruka Suzuki, Osamu Kozan, Ahmad Muhammad and Haris GunawanThe serious degradation of the...

Indonesian Exports, Peasant Agriculture and the World Economy, 1850-2000: Economic Structures in a Southeast Asian State

By Hiroyoshi Kano An "Indonesian economy" first took shape in the latter part of the nineteenth century, consisting of a dominant export industry supported by a rural agrarian sphere. The agricultural sector provided food and labour to the export sector,...

Infectious Disease Emergencies: Preparedness and Response

WINNER: Best Professional Title, Singapore Book Awards 2026 "Its comprehensive approach makes this book crucial reading for people at all career stages in public health as well as policy makers." - Devi Sridhar, The Lancet Read online open access: https://buff.ly/4gpWEBD Dale...

Catch-Up Industrialization: The Trajectory and Prospects of East Asian Economies

By Akira Suehiro Catch-Up Industrialization is an innovative examination of how the political ideology of "developmentalism" has driven East Asian economic growth. The author considers innovative production and management techniques, the patterns of industrial relations, and the way education shapes the...

Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma

By Judith L. Richell Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma is an examination of the factors that shaped demographic change in Burma between 1852 and 1941. Despite increasing contemporary interest in the historical demography of the non-European world, there has...

Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence across the Taiwan Strait and Beyond

By Scott L. Kastner Why is it that political conflict between countries sometimes undermines commerce between those states, and yet at other times it seems to have little or no effect on cross-border economic flows? The question is an important...

Malaysian 'Bail Outs'? Capital Controls, Restructuring and Recovery

By K.S. Jomo, Chin Kok Fay and Wong Sook Chin As Malaysia’s government responded to the 1997–98 financial crisis, the global financial community criticised its measures as bail outs for politically-influential corporate interests. When the economy recovered strongly in 1999...

Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance

by Daromir Rudnyckyj Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change—yet possible alternatives seem to have little traction. Beyond Debt describes efforts to create a...

Bangkok Transformed: An Economic History, 1820–1950

By Porphant Ouyyanont, edited by Chris Baker How did Bangkok, once a modest riverside town, transform into the vibrant capital of a modern nation? This book explores the dynamic forces that reshaped Bangkok between the late 18th century and the...

Promises and Predicaments: Trade and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Independent Indonesia in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Edited by Alicia Schrikker and Jeroen Touwen Contributions by Anne Booth, Hal Hill, Pim de Zwart, Daan Marks, Alexandra de Pleijt, Jan Luiten van Zanden, Alexander Claver, Leonard Blusse, Freek Colombijn, Roger Knight, Bambang Purwanto, David Henley, Robert Cribb, Thee...

World War II Singapore: The Chōsabu Reports on Syonan

Translated and edited by Gregg Huff & Shinobu Majima During World War II, the Japanese government created a research bureau, the Chōsabu, to study occupied Singapore. The bureau’s reports on Singapore’s economy and society, reproduced here in translation, covered population...

Index of Drinking Water Adequacy (IDWA): International and Intra-national Explorations

Edited by Seetharam Kallidaikurichi E. and Bhanoji Rao At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the largest-ever gathering of world leaders adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, setting out the Millennium Development Goals, including "MDG 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability" which included...

Transition Towards Post-Deng China

Edited by Gang Lin and Xiaobo Hu To understand Chinese development, or why China could sustain development in the face of the Asia economic crisis, we need first to gain a deep appreciation of the ongoing changes in China over...

Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asia Frontier, 1865-1915

By Eric Tagliacozzo Winner of the 2007 Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asia Studies Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and the Dutch delineated colonial spheres in the process of creating new frontiers....