John A. Larkin

Recalling local pasts : autonomous history in Southeast Asia

Maps and IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction / Robert H. Taylor1. Leading Port Cities in the Eastern Martaban Bay in the Context of Autonomous History / Sunait Chutintaranond2. Pega in Politics and Trade, Ninth to Seventeenth Centuries / Tun Aung Chain3. Arakans Ascent during the Mrauk U Period / Jacques P. Leider4. Towards a History of Seventeenth-Century Phuket / Dhiravat na Pombejra5. A Seventeenth-Century Port City in Vietnam: Autonomous History in the Absence of a Single Centralized Kingdom / Nguyen Chi Thong6. Power Relations between the Orang Laut and the Malay Kingdoms of Melaka and Johor during the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries / Chuleeporn Virunha7. Afterword: Autonomys Meanings / Chris BakerGlossaryContributorsBibliographyIndex

Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy . By Alfred W. McCoy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xx, 425 pp.

An approach to the military and political history of the Philippines. Comparing two generations of graduates from the Philippine Military Academy - the classes of 1940 and 1971 - McCoy uncovers fundamental differences in their academic socialization and subsequent ascent to power.