News from the Project (or last writes)

Abstract

The five years' earmarked funding by the Research School of Pacific [and Asian] studies for ECHOSEA came to its allotted end in 1994. This is therefore the moment to look back and reflect on what has been achieved and what remains to be done. 21 different authors have been commissioned to write major volumes for the new Macmillan Economic History of Southeast Asia. Of these, three are tenured members of the Research School, and two others obtained appointments in the Project - Dr Anne Booth as Senior Research Fellow (1989-91) and Dr Pierre van der Eng as Post Doctoral Fellow (1992-93). Both these scholars left before their full term - Dr Booth to a chair at SOAS in London, and Dr van der Eng to a Lectureship in the Faculty of Economics, ANU. Show more