Entrepot of trade : Southeast Asia until the 1870s / Stephen Dobbs -- Imperial frameworks : Southeast Asia from 1870 to 1957 / Adrian Vickers -- World economies : Southeast Asia since to 1950s / John Minns -- Thailand / Michael Kelly Connors -- Malaysia / Fiona Yap -- Singapore / Michael Haas -- Brunei / Geoffrey C. Gunn -- The Philippines / Raul Pertierra -- Indonesia / William Case -- East Timor / Damien Kingsbury -- Vietnam / Athar Hussain -- Cambodia / Sue Downie -- Laos / Gerald W. Fry and Manynooch Nitnoi Faming -- Burma / Clark D. Neher -- Nation-building, ethnicity, and politics / David Martin Jones and Kirsten E. Schulze -- Environment, resources, and hazards / Greg Bankoff -- Agriculture / John Minns -- Financial services and the Asian crisis / Yoichiro Sato -- Relations with northeast Asia / Stephen Hoadley -- Worlds in collision : Southeast Asia and the west / Mark Beeson.