Historical Context Southeast Asia has long been plagued by maritime piracy, dating back to the age of early maritime trading networks. Historical records from the 14th century indicate that pirate ...

The islands of maritime Southeast Asia can range from the very large (for instance, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Luzon) to tiny pinpoints on the map (Indonesia is said to comprise 17,000 islands). Because ...

The subject of this course is the history of maritime Asia, particularly East and Southeast Asia, from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. If there is something we could refer to as a ...