Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction

James R. Rush is Professor of History at Arizona State University, where he has taught for twenty-six years. He has served as Director of Arizona State University's Program for Southeast Asian Studies and as a consultant to the Asia Society, El Colegio de Mexico, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Opium to Java: Revenue Farms and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910; Hamka's Great Story: A Master Writer's Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia; and The Last Tree: Reclaiming the Environment in Tropical Asia.