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Nicholas Tarling is one of the foremost historians of the role of the British in Southeast Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Well established in his field of expertise specifically focusing on British policy in and towards Malaya / Malaysia, Indonesia, Siam / Thailand and Myanmar (Burma), he has authored and edited close to 40 books including the two volume The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (Cambridge, 1992), and more than 90 scholarly journal articles in an academic career spanning more than half a century.
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