List of Maps - Preface - List of Abbreviations - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; A.Reid - Mainland-Archipelagic Parallels and Contrasts, c.1750-1850; V.Lieberman - ECONOMIC CHANGES - A New Phase of Commercial Expansion in Southeast Asia 1760-1840; A.Reid - Chinese Pioneering in Eighteenth Century Southeast Asia; C.Trocki - Agriculture as a Generator of Change in Late Choson Korea; H.Lee - Peasant Drain and Abandoned Villages in the Red River Delta between 1750 and 1850; Y.Sakurai - Rural Monetization and Land-Mortgage Thet-kayits in Kon-baung Burma; T.Saito - STATE STRATEGIES - Adapting to Political and Economic Change: Palembang in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries; B.W.Andaya - Siak and its Changing Strategies of Survival: c.1700-1870; J.Kathirithamby-Wells - The Relationship between Political Theory and Economic Growth in Vietnam, 1750-1840; A.Woodside - The Myth of the Restoration: Dang Trong Influences in the Spiritual Life of the early Nguyen dynasty (1802-47); N.Cooke - NEW CONSCIOUSNESS - Social and Intellectual Changes in Eighteenth Century Korea; M.Deuchler - Java: a self-critical examination of the Nation and its History; A.Kumar - New Kingdoms, Old Concerns: Balinese Identities in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; H.Creese - 'Wanderers, Robbers and Bad Folk': The Politics of Violence, Protection and Trade in Eastern Sulawesi 1750-1850; E.Velthoen - Lombok under the Mataram Dynasty, 1839-1894; A.van der Kraan - PATTERNS OF REFORM IN THE 'LAST STAND' - Reform Tendencies in XIXth Century Vietnam; V.M.Giang - History and Directionality in the Early Nineteenth Century Tai World; D.Wyatt - Glossary - Index