Most Important Publications

Books

2006 (together with Cynthia Chou), Southeast Asian Studies. Debates and Directions. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

2002 (together with H.W. Dick, J.Th. Lindblad and Thee Kian Wie) The Emergence of a National Economy. An Economic History of Indonesia 1800-2000.Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin.

1999 (together with J.Th. Lindblad) Coolie Labour in Colonial Indonesia. A Study of Labour Relations in the Outer Islands, c.1900-1940. Wiesbaden: Harrossowitz.

1994 Kraton and Kumpeni. Surakarta and Yogyakarta 1830-1870. Leiden: KITLV Press.

Articles

2009 'Boundaries of Race. Representations of Indisch in Colonial Indonesia Revisited', in: Harald Fischer-Tiné and Susanne Gehrmann (eds.), Empires and Boundaries. Rethinking Race, Class and Gender in Colonial Settings. New York/London: Routledge, pp. 66-85

2007 'Representations of Indonesian History. A Critical Reassessment', in: Eva Streifeneder and Antje Missbach (eds.), Indonesia - The Presence of the Past. Berlin: Regiospektra, pp. 21-31

2004 ‚Globalization in Southeast Asia – a Historical Analysis’, in: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Ed.), Asian Modernity. Globalization Processes and the Cultural and Political Localization, pp. 27-33.

2004 ‘Regionalwissenschaften und die Marginalisierung der Südostasienstudien in Deutschland – eine Stellungsnahme’, in: Asien 91, S. 87-95.

2004 ‚Leiden und Ost-Indien. Kolonialrepräsentationen einer niederländischen Universität’, in: Jahrbuch für Universitätsgeschichte 7, S. 53-72.

2003 ‚Southeast Asia and Islam’, in: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 58-8, pp. 149-170.