Craig’s Book Reviews
Book reviews do not enjoy high status in academic fields where an emphasis is placed on research publications, and the mass media only occasionally review academic books. The aim of this series of book reviews is to introduce New Mandala readers to important, interesting books, particularly in history and religion, in an accessible format.
The reviews in this series are by Craig Reynolds who teaches in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. A list of his selected publications can be found on his personal website. He is currently studying religion, banditry, policing, and the environment in Thailand’s mid-south during the first half of the twentieth century.
New reviews will be posted intermittently. Previous reviews have included:
- Wassana Nanuam, Secrets, Trickery, and Camouflage: The Improbable Phenomena. In Thai.
- Robert H. Taylor, The State in Myanmar.
- Southern Thai Encylopedia. In Thai.
- Chatthip Nartsupha, The Thai Village Economy in the Past.
- Tamara Loos, Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand.
- Han ten Brummelhuis, King of the Waters: Homan van der Heide and the Origin of Modern Irrigation in Siam.
- Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830. Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland.