Der Band ist das Resultat eines gemeinsamen Projekts von europäischen und südostasiatischen Historikern, die sich zum Ziel gesetzt haben, die Beziehungen zwischen beiden Regionen seit 1850 zu erforschen. Die Beiträge wurden auf einer Konferenz präsentiert, die im August 1999 in Bangkok stattfand. Inhalt: Marc Frey: Creations of Sovereignty and the Waning of Influence: Southeast Asian-European Relations after Formal Decolonization (1-40); Hugues Tertrais: France Facing Indochina: Images and Misunderstandings (41-49); Philippe Mioche: If European Integration Had Stumbled at Dien Bien Phu? (51-58); Andrew J. Crozier: Imperial Retrenchment and Adaptation in Southeast Asia: Britain's Relations with Burma, Malaya and Thailand 1945-48 (59-96); Nigel J. Brailey: The Thailand-Burma "Death Railway" in Thai History (97-109); Chompunut Nakirak: Foreign Advisers and the Modernization of Thai Economics (1868-1910) (111-125); Suthachai Yimprasert: The Influence of Western Democratic Ideology on the "New Regime" in Siam (127-139); Ian Nish: Repercussions of the Asia-Pacific War on Independence Movements in Indonesia (141-147); J. Thomas Lindblad: The Political Economy of Realignment in Indonesia during the Sukarno Period (149-171); Jeroen Touwen: Indonesia's Foreign Policy and Trade, 1957-1965: Economic Reorientation versus Political Realignment (173-188); Chuleeporn Pongsupath: "Whither Shall We Go": The Western Mercantile Community and the Maintenance of Penang's Free-Port Status, c. 1930-1957 (189-215); Ahmat Adam: The Genesis of Socio-Political Consciousness in Sabah (217-232); Lee Kam Hing: Economic Reconstruction and Political Rebellion: The Insurance Industry in Malaya (233-249); Paul H. Kratoska: Minorities in the Transition from Colonialism to Independence in Southeast Asia (251-259); Klairung Amratisha: Rebuilding the Empire: The French Image of Cambodia and the Emergence of Modern Khmer Novel (261-271).