Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-296) and index.

Status and security in early Southeast Asian state systems / Nicholas Tarling -- The "Alexandrowicz thesis" re-visited : Hugo Grotius, divisible sovereignty, and private avengers within the Indian Ocean world system / Eric Wilson -- Phrakhlang ministry of Ayutthaya : Siamese instrument to cope with the early modern world / Bhawan Ruangsilp -- Applying the seas perspective in the study of eastern Indonesia in the early modern period / Leonard Y. Andaya -- Borneo in the early modern period, ca. late fourteenth to ca. late eighteenth centuries / Ooi Keat Gin -- Another past : early modern Vietnamese silk production and export in global perspective / Hoang Anh Tuan -- Van Don : an international sea port of Dai Viet / Nguyen Van Kim -- Batu Sawar Johor : a regional centre of trade in the early seventeenth century / Peter Borschberg -- Urban growth and municipal development of early Penang / Nordin Hussin -- Revisiting "kingship" in seventeenth century Aceh : from ira et malevolentia to pax et custodia / Sher Banu A.L. Khan -- Catching and selling elephants : trade and tradition in seventeenth century Siam / Dhiravat na Pombejra -- Cham-Viet Relations in Binh Thuan and Ninh Thuan under Nguyen rule from the late seventeenth century to mid-eighteenth century / Danny Wong Tze Ken -- The glocalization of Christianity in early modern Southeast Asia / Barbara Watson Andaya -- The passing of rice spirits : cosmology, technology, and gender relations in the colonial Philippines / Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr.