“Southeast Asia in World History”, the latest book by Craig A. Lockard, Ben and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, is relatively small – only 272 pages! – compared to the scope of it’s subject – eleven countries from ancient times up to the 21st century! – but according to Akiko Sugiyama also “the most accessible single-volume survey history thus far available”.

If you want to know how and why Sugiyama comes to this conclusion take a look at his review available online at H-Soz-u-Kult.