About the Author

NICHOLAS TARLING was Professor of History at the University of Auckland 1968-97 and has since been a Fellow of its New Zealand Asia Institute. He holds the Cambridge LittD degree. He was editor of The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia and has published many other books and articles in that field and others. Among the most recent are Britain, Southeast Asia and the Impact of the Korean War [Singapore University Press, 2005], Britain and the West New Guinea Dispute [Mellen, 2008] and Southeast Asia and the Great Powers [Routledge, 2010].