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We have been commissioned by Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers of Chicago and London to edit a volume on Southeast Asia in its series of Regional Handbooks of Economic Development: Prospects onto the 21st Century. We are writing to ask if you would like to contribute a chapter or chapters to the book. A copy of the outline for the book follows this message.
The aim of the series is to cover important issues that are likely to affect economic (but also political and social) development into the next century, with some reference to events and circumstances since the end of World War II. The book will thus serve, to some extent, as a "snapshot" profile, but the main purpose is to treat a range of complex problems and data concisely, accessibly and evenhandedly. The intended readership includes students, scholars and the general educated public.
Contributors would be asked to provide a chapter between 5,000 and 7,000 words long, as well as supplementary material (bibliography, glossary, exhibits, data on main events, institutions, and personalities), in accordance with detailed Notes on format and style provided by Fitzroy Dearborn. Each contributor will receive 150 pounds (per chapter) and one copy of the book. The copy deadline is 1 September 2000, although extensions may be made available case by case.
We would be most grateful for a response once you have had an opportunity to reflect on the project. We look forward to hearing from you in the near future.
With best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Patrick Heenan and Monique Lamontagne
Outline for The Southeast Asia Handbook
Part One: History and Trade
(1) Entrepot of Trade: Southeast Asia until the 1870s (5,000 words)
(2) Imperial Frameworks: 1870s to 1950s (5,000 words)
(3) World Economies: 1960s onward (8,000 words)
Part Two: Nation States of Southeast Asia (each 5,000-6,500 words)
(4) Thailand [ASSIGNED]
(5) Malaysia [ASSIGNED]
(6) Singapore [ASSIGNED]
(7) Brunei
(8) Philippines
(9) Indonesia
(10) East Timor
(11) Vietnam
(12) Cambodia
(13) Laos [ASSIGNED]
(14) Burma [ASSIGNED]
Part Three: Southeast Asia and the New Century
(15) Identity, Citizenship, and Ethnicity (5,000 words)
(16) Environment, Resources, and Hazards [ASSIGNED]
(17) Agriculture [including, e.g., the Green Revolution, genetic modification] (5,000 words)
(18) Financial Services and the Asian Crisis [ASSIGNED]
(19) Globalisation and Culture [including, e.g., media, IT, values/rights] (5,000 words)
Part Four: Southeast Asia and the Wider World
(20) Relations with Northeast Asia [Japan, China, South Korea, North Korea] (6,000 words)
(21) Relations with the West [United States, EU, Australia, New Zealand] (6,000 words)
(22) Relations with South Asia (5,000 words)
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