Winner of IBP 2009 Social Sciences

Anne E. Booth, Colonial Legacies: Economic and Social Development in East and Southeast Asia. University of Hawai'i Press, 2007.

Colonial Legacies is an extremely valuable comparative study analysing the contrasting economic development of former American or European colonies with those of Japan. It is an original and refreshing work, broad in its scope and yet full of relevant detail and it is soundly based on a wide range of sources, while its conclusions are supported throughout by statistical tables. Ideal for students, it will also be required reading for specialists and no-one with an interest in the region, or colonial history, can fail to profit from its study. Concise and accessible, it provides a considerable body of evidence which
further demonstrates the fragmented and negotiated nature of colonial rule and is thus a 'cutting edge' work. A model study that succeeds in enlivening its subject, it will become a standard text in the field.

Shortlist IBP 2009 Social Sciences

Xudong Zhang, Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century. Duke University Press, 2008.

Sanjay Seth, Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India. Duke University Press, 2007.

Ulbe Bosma and Remco Raben, Being "Dutch" in the Indies: A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500-1920. NUS Press, 2007.