Shortlisted: 2003 'The Australian' Awards For Excellence in Educational Publishing. Category: Tertiary Education (wholly Australian) - Book Series (entered with Japan & Laos).
Professor Martin Stuart-Fox is Professor of History at the
University of Queensland and an expert in Southeast Asian history
and politics. As a journalist in Asia he covered, among other
things, the Vietnam War. In his 25 years teaching on Asia he has
contributed to numerous articles and chapters and has authored
several books, including The Murderous Revolution: Life and Death
in Pol Pot's Kampuchea, Laos: Politics, Economics and Society and A
History of Laos. He is currently working on an evolutionary theory
of history.
Series Editor Milton Osborne has had an association with the Asian
region for over 40 years as an academic, public servant and
independent writer. He is the author of eight books on Asian
topics, including Southeast Asia: An introductory history, first
published in 1979 and now in its eighth edition, and, most
recently, The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future, published
in 2000.
"I cannot welcome this series warmly enough. It is sure to be a winner--and much needed." --Bill Bryson, author, In a Sunburned Country and A Walk in the Woods
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