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The Integrity of Southeast Asian History*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2011

Extract

At the end of a Cornell seminar a few weeks ago, a student remarked that the great difficulty in studying Southeast Asian history lay in the immense size of the area, and in the fact that it contained so many different countries. I agreed, but commented that they all belonged to Southeast Asia, and I went on, “If you were. to take indigenes from the different countries and dress them all exactly alike, it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to identify the country of origin of each and all.”

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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1973

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* A paper read at the 87th meeting of the American Historical Association at New Orleans to the Conference on Asian History December 29th 1972.