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Published book reviews are listed here alphabetically by author.  The volume in which a review is published is in parentheses following each entry.
Abinales, Patricio, ed.  
The Revolution Falters: The Left in Philippines Politics after 1986. Reviewed by David Wurfel
Reviewed by David Wurfel    (Crossroads Vol. 12:1, 1998)

Ackerman, Susan E., and Raymond L.M. Lee  
Heaven in Transition: Non-Muslim Religious Innovation and Ethnic Identity in Malaysia. Reviewed by Daniel Regan
Reviewed by Daniel Regan    (Crossroads Vol. 5:2, 1990)

Adam, Ahmat B   
The Vernacular Press and the Emergence of Modern Indonesian Consciousness (1855-1913)
Reviewed by Joost Coté    (Crossroads Vol. 10:2, 1997)

Ahmat, Sharom, and Sharon Diddique  
Muslim Society: Higher Education and Development in Southeast Asia
Reviewed by Robert E. Wood    (Crossroads Vol. 5:2, 1990)

Alagappa, Muthiah, ed  
Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority
Reviewed by Patricio N. Abinales    (Crossroads Vol. 10:2, 1997)

Alatas, Syed Farid  
Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia
Reviewed by Dwight Y. King    (Crossroads Vol. 12:2, 1998)

Andaya, Barbara Watson  
To Live as Brothers: Southeast Sumatra in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Reviewed by Christopher Wake    (Crossroads Vol. 9:1,1995)

Andaya, Leonard Y   
The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period
Reviewed by Wim Manuhutu    (Crossroads Vol. 8:2, 1994)

Appleton, Ann L  
Acts of Integration, Expressions of Faith: Madness, Death and Ritual in Melanau Ontology. 2006. Phillips, ME: Borneo Research Council
  

Ariff, Mohamed, and Tan Loong-Hoe, eds  
The Uruguay Round, ASEAN Trade Policy Options
Reviewed by Sumimaru Odano    (Crossroads Vol. 5:2, 1990)

Arka, I. Wayan and Malcolm Ross, eds  
The Many Faces of Austronesian Voice Systems: Some New Empirical Studies. 2005. Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics
  

Arps, Bernard  
Performance in Java and Bali: Studies in Narrative, Theatre, Music, and Dance
Reviewed by Pamela Myers-Moro    (Crossroads Vol. 8:2, 1994)

Askey, Marc, William S. Logan and Colin Long   
Vientiane: Transformations of a Lao Landscape. Asia Transformations Series. 2007. London: Routledge
  

Asmussen, Fleur Brofos  
Lao Roots: Fragments of a Nordic-Lao Family Sage
Reviewed by Joseph Stimpfl    (Crossroads Vol. 13:2, 1999)

Aung-Thwin, Michael  
Pagan: The Origin of Modern Burma
Reviewed by Yoneo Ishii    (Crossroads Vol. 5:1, 1990)

Baccamm, Don, Faluang, Hung Baccam, and Dorothy Fippinger (comps)  
Tai Dam-English English Tai Dam Vocabulary Book
Reviewed by John F. Hartmann    (Crossroads Vol. 5:1, 1990)

Baer, A  
Vital Signs: Health in Borneo’s Sarawak. 2006. Phillips, ME: Borneo Research Council
  

Baer, A  
Genes, People, and Borneo History: A Review. 2005. Phillips, ME: Borneo Research Council.
  

Barlow, H S   

Reviewed by Ernest LeVos    (Crossroads Vol. 10:1, 1996)

Barnes, R H, Andrew Gray, and Bendict Kingsbury, eds  
Indigenous Peoples of Asia
Reviewed by Aram A. Yengoyan    (Crossroads Vol. 11:1, 1997)

Barry, Kathleen, ed.  
Vietnam’s Women in Transition
Reviewed by Laurel Kendall    (Crossroads Vol. 10:2, 1997)

Bates, Milton J   
The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling
Reviewed by Glenn A. Meeter    (Crossroads Vol. 11:1, 1997)

Batson, Benjamin A, and Shimizu Hajime  
“The Tragedy of Wanit”: A Japanese Account of Wartime Thai Politics
Reviewed by David K. Wyatt    (Crossroads Vol. 7:1, 1992)

Becker, A L, ed  
Writing on the Tongue
Reviewed by Richard McGinn    (Crossroads Vol. 6:2, 1991)

Becker, Judith  
Gamelan Stories: Tantrism, Islam, and Aesthetics in Central Java
Reviewed by Roger Vetter    (Crossroads Vol. 8:1, 1992)

Bekaert, Jacquest  
Cambodian Diary: Tales of a Divided Nation, 1983-1986
Reviewed by Truong Buu Lam    (Crossroads Vol. 12:2, 1998)

Bello, Walden, Shea Cunningham, and Li Kheng Poh  
A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Disintegration in Modern Thailand
Reviewed by David Frossard    (Crossroads Vol. 14:1, 2000)

Bellwood, Peter  
Prehistory of the Indo-Malayan Archipelago
Reviewed by Eric Crystal    (Crossroads Vol. 13:1, 1999)

Beresford, Melanie  
National Unification and Economic Development in Vietnam
Reviewed by Michael J. Scown    (Crossroads Vol. 9:1,1995)

Bernstein, Jay H   
Spirits Captured in Stone: Shamanism and Traditional Medicine among the Taman of Borneo
Reviewed by Susan Rodgers    (Crossroads Vol. 12:2, 1998)

Bickner, Robert J Thomas J Hudak, and Patcharin Peyansantiqong, eds  
Papers from a Conference on Thai Studies in Honor of William J. Gedney
Reviewed by Theodora Helene Bofman    (Crossroads 3:2-3, 1987)

Bobilin, Robert  
Revolution from Below: Buddhist and Christian Movements for Justice in Asia: Four Case Studies from Thailand and Sri Lanka
Reviewed by Frank E. Reynolds    (Crossroads Vol. 5:2, 1990)

Boellstorff, Tom  
The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia. 2006. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
  

Boon, James A   
Affinities and Extremities: Crisscrossing the Bittersweet Ethnology of East Indies History, Hindu-Balinese Culture and Indo-European Allure
Reviewed by Susan Montague    (Crossroads Vol. 6:2, 1991)

Booth, Anne  
The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities
Reviewed by Rebecca Aiken    (Crossroads Vol. 12:2, 1998)

Booth, Anne, WJ O’Malley, and Anna Weidemann  
Indonesian Economic History in the Dutch Colonial Era
Reviewed by Mason C. Hoadley    (Crossroads Vol. 8:2, 1994)

Bowen, John  
Muslims Through Discourse
Reviewed by Rita Smith Kipp    (Crossroads Vol. 8:2, 1994)

Bowie, Katherine A, ed  
Voices from the Thai Countryside: The Short Stories of Samruam Singh
Reviewed by Susan Kepner    (Crossroads Vol. 7:1, 1992)

Boyes, Jonathan  
Tiger-Men and Tofu Dolls: Tribal Spirits in Northern Thailand
Reviewed by Hjorleifur Jonsson    (Crossroads Vol. 13:2, 1999)

Branfman, F   
The Village of the Deep Pond and the Old Man: A Biographical Account of a Lao Villager
Reviewed by Phone Khoxayo    (Crossroads Vol. 2:1, 1984)

Brenner, Susan April  
The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java
Reviewed by Andrea K. Molnar    (Crossroads Vol. 13:2, 1999)

Brinner, Benjamin  
Knowing Music, Making Music: Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Musical Competence and Interaction
Reviewed by Carolyn S. Johnson    (Crossroads Vol. 10:1, 1996)

Brocheux, Pierre  
The Mekong Delta: Ecology, Economy, and Revolution, 1860-1960
Reviewed by John K. Whitmore    (Crossroads Vol. 9:1,1995)

Brown, Frederic Z   
Second Chance: The United States and Indochina in the 1990s
Reviewed by Brantly Womack    (Crossroads Vol. 5:2, 1990)

Brown, Robert L   
The Dvaravati Wheels of the Law and the Indianization of South East Asia
Reviewed by Mary-Ann Lutzker    (Crossroads Vol. 11:1, 1997)

Brown, Robert L, ed  
Ganesh: Studies of an Asian God
Reviewed by Juliane Schober    (Crossroads Vol. 8:1, 1992)

Brummelhuis, Hanten   
King of the Waters: Homan van der Heide and the Origin of Modern Irrigation in Siam. 2005. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press
  

Buchholt, Helmut, and Ulrich Mai  
Continuity, Change, and Aspirations; Social and Cultural Life in Minahasa, Indonesia
Reviewed by Anke Niehof    (Crossroads Vol. 10:1, 1996)

Burr, Rachel  
Vietnam’s Children in a Changing World. 2006. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
  

Campbell, Burnham O, Andrew Mason, and Ernesto M Pernia  
The Economic Impact of Demographic Change in Thailand, 1980-2015
Reviewed by Kerry Richter    (Crossroads Vol. 8:2, 1994)

Carbó, ed  
Returning a Borrowed Tongue: poems by Filipino and Filipino American Writers
Reviewed by Roger J. Jiang Bresnahan    (Crossroads Vol. 12:1, 1998)

Carey, Peter, and G Carter Bentley, eds  
East Timor at the Crossroads: The Forging of a Nation
Reviewed by Dwight King    (Crossroads Vol. 9:2, 1995)

Chaloemtiarana, Thak  
Thailand: The Politics of Despotic Paternalism. 2007. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications
  

Chandler, David  
A History of Cambodia, 4th edition
  

Chandler, David P   
The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War and Revolution since 1945
Reviewed by Constance M. Wilson    (Crossroads Vol. 7:2, 1992)

Chandler, David P   
Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Secret Prison
Reviewed by Judy Ledgerwood    (Crossroads Vol 15:1, 2001)

Chin, Christine BN   
In Service and Servitude: Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian “Modernity” Project
Reviewed by Stacey GH Yap    (Crossroads Vol 13:1, 1999)

Chitakasem, Manas, and Andrew Turton, eds  
Thai Constructions of Knowledge
Reviewed by Frank E Reynolds    (Crossroads Vol 7:2, 1992)

Chou, Cynthia and Vincent Houben, eds.  
Southeast Asian Studies: Debates and New Directions. 2006. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
  

Christensen, Scott, et al  
Thailand: The Institutional and Political Underpinnings of Growth
Reviewed by Carmen Barker Lemay    (Crossroads Vol 8:2, 1994)

Christie, Clive J   
Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century: A Reader
Reviewed by Lisa L Lanman    (Crossroads Vol 13:1, 1999)

Christie, Clive J A   
Modern History of Southeast Asia: Decolonization, Nationalism and Separatism
Reviewed by Robert Lawless    (Crossroads Vol 12:1, 1998)

Clammer, John  
Race and State in Independent Singapore 1965-1990: The Cultural Politics of Pluralism in a Multiethnic Society
Reviewed by Joseph Stipfl    (Crossroads Vol 14:1, 2000)

Clarke, Gerard  
The Politics of NGOs in South-East Asia: Participation and Protest in the Philippines
Reviewed by Meredith L Weiss    (Crossroads Vol 15:1, 2001)

Coedes, G   
The Making of Southeast Asia
Reviewed by Constance M Wilson    (Crossroads Vol 2:1, 1984)

Collins, Elizabeth Fuller  
Pierced by Murugan’s Lance: Ritual, Power, and Moral Redemption among Malaysian Hindus
Reviewed by Jean DeBernardi    (Crossroads Vol 12:2, 1998)

Collins, Steven  
A Pali Grammar for Students. 2007. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press
  

Colombijn, Freek  
Patches of Padang: The History of an Indonesian Town in the Twentieth Century and the Use of Urban Space
Reviewed by Thomas R Leinbach    (Crossroads Vol 9:1,1995)

Constable, Nicole, ed.   
Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia. 2005. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
  

Cooke, Faddzilah Majid  
The Challenge of Sustainable Forests: Forest Resource Policy in Malaysia, 1970-1995
Reviewed by Henry T Lewis    (Crossroads Vol 15:2, 2001)

Cooper, Robert, ed  
The Hmong: A Guide to Traditional Life Styles
Reviewed by Wofram Erhardt    (Crossroads Vol 13:2, 1999)

Cornish, Andrew  
Whose Place is This? Malay Rubber Producers and Thai Government Officials in Yala
Reviewed by Joseph Stimpfl    (Crossroads Vol 12:2, 1998)

Costa, LeeRay and Andrew Matzner  
Male Bodies, Women's Souls: Personal Narratives of Thailand's Transgendered Youth. 2005. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press
  

Coté, Joost, trans  
On Feminism and Nationalism: Kartini’s Letters to Stella Zeehandelaar, 1899-1903
Reviewed by Frances Gouda    (Crossroads Vol 12:1, 1998)

Cribb, Robert and Colin Brown  
Modern Indonesia: A History since 1945
Reviewed by Robert Van Niel    (Crossroads Vol 12:2, 1998)

Crouch, Harold  
Government and Society in Malaysia
Reviewed by Constance Wilson    (Crossroads Vol 12:1, 1998)

Cullather, Nick  
Illusions of Influence: The Political Economy of the United States-Philippines Relations, 1942-1960
Reviewed by James Biedzynski    (Crossroads Vol 9:1,1995)

Cushman, Jennifer Wayne  
Fields from the Sea: Chinese Junk Trade with Siam During the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Reviewed by Constance M Wilson    (Crossroads Vol 8:2, 1994)

Cushman, Richard D; David K Wyatt, ed  
The Royal Chronicles of Ayutthaya
Reviewed by Constance Wilson    (Crossroads Vol 15:2, 2001)

Dalby, Andrew  
South East Asia: A Guide to Reference Material
Reviewed by Constance M Wilson    (Crossroads Vol 8:2, 1994)

Davis, Sara L.M  
Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China’s Southwest Borders. 2005. New York: Columbia University Press
  

De Koninck, Rodolphe  
Malay Peasants Coping with the World: Breaking the Community Circle?
Reviewed by Heather Strange    (Crossroads Vol 8:1, 1992)

Depu, Zhu  
Leshi yanjiu [Studies on the History of the le Kingdom]; Daizu shenling chongbai mizong [Dai Spirit Worship]
Reviewed by Magnus Fiskesjö    (Crossroads Vol 12:2, 1998)

Dijk, Wil O  
Seventeenth-century Burma and the Dutch East India Company, 1634-1680. 2006. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press
  

Dirkse, Jan-Paul, Frans Hüsken, and Mario Rutten  
Development and Social Welfare: Indonesia’s Experience Under the New Order
Reviewed by Andi A Mallarangeng    (Crossroads Vol 8:2, 1994)

Dixon, Chris  
South East Asia in the World-Economy: A Regional Geography
Reviewed by Richard Ulack    (Crossroads Vol 7:2, 1992)

Doeppers, Daniel F, and Peter Xenos, ed  
Population and History: The Demographic Origins of the Modern Philippines
Reviewed by Bruce Cruikshank    (Crossroads Vol 14:1, 2000)

Doner, Richard F   
Driving a Bargain: Automobile Industrialization and Japanese Firms in Southeast Asia
Reviewed by Paul A Rodell    (Crossroads Vol 8:2, 1994)

Donner, Wolf  
Land Use and Environment in Indonesia
Reviewed by Thomas R Leinbach    (Crossroads Vol 5:2, 1990)

Dove, Michael R ed  
The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in development: Case Studies from Indonesia
Reviewed by Rita Smith Kipp    (Crossroads Vol 5:1, 1990)

Dove, Michael R., Percy E. Sajise, and Amita A. Doolittle, eds.  
Conserving Nature in Culture: Case Studies from Southeast Asia. 2005. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asian Studies
  

Drake, Christine  
National Integration in Indonesia: Patterns and Policies
Reviewed by Millidge Walker    (Crossroads Vol 6:1, 1991)

Duiker, William J US  
Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina
Reviewed by E Bruce Reynolds    (Crossroads Vol 9:1,1995)

Dumont, Jean-Paul  
Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island
Reviewed by Leslie E Adler    (Crossroads Vol 8:1, 1992)

Duong, Pham Cao  
Vietnamese Peasants under French Domination, 1861-1945
Reviewed by William S Turley    (Crossroads Vol 5:1, 1990)

Durand, Maurice M, and Nguy?n Trân Huân  
An Introduction to Vietnamese Literature
Reviewed by John Schafer    (Crossroads Vol 7:2, 1992)

Durrenberger, E Paul  
State Power and Culture in Thailand
Reviewed by Yoko Hayami    (Crossroads Vol 11:1, 1997)

Dwyer, Denis J, ed  
South East Asian Development: geographical Perspectives
Reviewed by Richard Ulack    (Crossroads Vol 7:2, 1992)

Eade, JC  
The Thai Historical Record: A Computer Analysis
Reviewed by Constance M Wilson    (Crossroads Vol 11:1, 1997)

Ebihara, May M, Carol A Mortland, and Judy Ledgerwood, eds  
Cambodian Culture Since 1975: Homeland and Exile
Reviewed by Susan Needham    (Crossroads Vol 9:1,1995)

Eder, James F   
On the Road to Tribal Extinction: Depopulation, Deculturation, and Adaptive Wll-Being among the Batak of the Philippines
Reviewed by Susan D Russell    (Crossroads Vol 5:2, 1990)

Edmondson, Jerold A, and David B Solnit, eds  
Comparative Kadai: Linguistic Studies Beyond Tai
Reviewed by John F Hartmann    (Crossroads Vol 5:1, 1990)

Enriquez, Virgilio G   
From Colonial to Liberation Psychology: The Philippines Experience
Reviewed by Ruth Cobb Hill    (Crossroads Vol 8:2, 1994)

Esterline, John H, and May H Esterline  
“How the Dominoes Fell”: Southeast Asia in Perspective
Reviewed by Bruce L Fenner    (Crossroads Vol 4:2, 1989)

Evans, Grant  
The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance: Laos Since 1975
Reviewed by Arthur J Dommen    (Crossroads Vol 13:1, 1999)

Ferretti, Eveline, ed  
Cutting Across the Lands: An Annotated Bibliography on Natural Resource Management and Community Development in Indonesia, the Philippine, and Malaysia
Reviewed by Dwight Y King    (Crossroads Vol 12:1, 1998)

Fineman, Daniel  
A Special Relationship: The United States and Military Government in Thailand, 1947-1958
Reviewed by Gerald W Fry    (Crossroads Vol 12:1, 1998)

Fischer, Joseph, ed  
Modern Indonesian Art: Three Generations of Tradition and Change 1945-1990
Reviewed by Mary-Ann Lutzker    (Crossroads Vol 8:1, 1992)

Fleuckiger, Joyce Burkhalter, and Laurie J Sears, eds  
Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia
Reviewed by Elizabeth F Collins    (Crossroads Vol 8:1, 1992)

Fouser, Beth  
The Lord of the Golden Tower: King Prasat Thong and the Building of Wat Chaiwatthanaram
Reviewed by Bob Hudson    (Crossroads Vol 13:1, 1999)

Freeman, James M   
Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives
Reviewed by John Chr Knudsen    (Crossroads Vol 6:1, 1991)

Fukui, Hayao. Peter Hawkes, trans  
Food and Population in a Northeast Thai Village
Reviewed by Kerry Richter    (Crossroads Vol 9:1,1995)

Fusayama Takao  
A Japanese Memoir of Sumatra, 1945-1946: Love and Hatred in the Liberation War
Reviewed by Colin Brown    (Crossroads Vol 9:1,1995)

Gallop, Annabel The  
Early Views of Indonesia: Drawings from the British Library
Reviewed by Astri Wright    (Crossroads Vol 9:2, 1995)

Gammeltoft, Tine  
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Worries: Health and Family Planning in a Vietnamese Rural Community
Reviewed by Andrea Whittaker    (Crossroads Vol 14:2, 2000)

Gesick, Lorraine M  
In the Land of Lady White Blood: Southern Thailand and the Meaning of History
Reviewed by Constance Wilson    (Crossroads Vol 10:1, 1996)

Girling, John  
Interpreting Development: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Middle Class in Thailand
Reviewed by David S Bell    (Crossroads Vol 11:2, 1997)

Gleeck, Lewis E, Jr  
President Marcos and the Philippine Political Culture
Reviewed by Chester L Hunt    (Crossroads Vol 5:2, 1990)

Gomez, Edmund Terence, and Jomo KS  
Malaysia’s Political Economy: Politics, Patronage and Profits
Reviewed by Diane K Mauzy    (Crossroads Vol 12:1, 1998)

Grabowsky, Volker, ed  
Regions and National Integration in Thailand, 1892-1992
Reviewed by Constance M Wilson    (Crossroads Vol 10:2, 1997)

Grant, Richard L, ed  
China and Sou