books and collections
Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Hamka’s Great Story: A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia. University of Wisconsin Press, 2016.
Indonesian-language edition: Adicerita Hamka, Jakarta: Gramedia, 2017.
Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910. Cornell University Press, 1990.
Reprint edition: Equinox Press Classic Indonesia Series, 2007.
Indonesian-language edition: Candu Tempo Doeloe. Jakarta: Komunitas Bambu, 2013.
The Ramon Magsaysay Awards is the multivolume book of record of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation.
General editor of volumes 9-15 and author of 40 biographical essays and 113 award citations.
Asia in Western Fiction, co-edited with Robin Winks.
Manchester University Press/Hawaii University Press, 1990.
Introduction and chapter, “Journeys to Java: Western Fiction about Indonesia.”
The Last Tree: Reclaiming the Environment in Tropical Asia. The Asia Society/Westview Press, 1991.
Java: A Travellers' Anthology. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Compiler, and author of Preface, Introduction, and introductory passages for thirty-five readings.
The essay“Sukarno” is featured in this Harvard collection. Makers of Modern Asia, edited by Ramachandra Guha. Harvard University Press, 2014.