From Mindanao to Timor, Bali to New Guinea, Sutherland finds new linkages and discovers fresh fractures down the centuries. A brilliant re-imagining of how people thought and lived, with a dazzling command of the sources. The book transforms the way we see the past of island Southeast Asia."

Seaways and Gatekeepersis a wonderful book. It has resonance for a wide readership and could easily sit as a core textbook for studies on South East Asia, providing as it does a useful source of comparison on European encounters with non-European Others. The book’s biggest contribution lies in the environmentally determined aspect of the research methodology.” Sutherland, Heather (1974). "Notes on Java's Regent Families: Part II". Indonesia. 17 (17): 1–43. doi: 10.2307/3350770. hdl: 1813/53573. JSTOR 3350770. This combination of ambition and caution led the author to divide the book into two sections. The first, Foundations, traces the geographic, economic and political patterns which constituted a deeply rooted sub-stratum knitting this extensive region together. These synchronic chapters provide the basis for the cautious part two, Glimpsed Histories. The author seemed to tread carefully here. Although she emphasizes the trading ties and political alliances that connected diverse regions into shifting clusters, the author tries to give politically unincorporated societies their due share of attention. Trade rather than the state is the central motif. The resulting story is one of adaptation, opportunities grasped and lost, and of tenuous but very resilient webs within wider systems. But it is all very incomplete: local perspectives are extremely rare. Rather than forcibly merging these Glimpsed Histories into one explicit theme the author has deliberately chosen to leave the fragments where they lie. The results may be jagged, but a little uncertainty is preferable to a misleading homogenisation which could preclude promising avenues of enquiry.

Sutherland, Heather (2000). "Trepang and wangkang: The China trade of eighteenth-century Makassar c. 1720s-1840s". Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 156 (3): 451–472. doi: 10.1163/22134379-90003835. JSTOR 27865648. Monsoon Traders: Ships, Skippers and Commodities in Eighteenth-Century Makassar. Brill. 2021. ISBN 978-90-04-48691-1. (with Gerrit Knaap) Sutherland, Heather (2009). "Treacherous Translators and Improvident Paupers: Perception and Practice in Dutch Makassar, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 53 (1–2): 319–356. doi: 10.1163/002249910X12573963244566. Boomgaard, Peter (2007). A World of Water: Rain, Rivers and Seas in Southeast Asian Histories. Singapore: NUS Press. p.355. ISBN 978-9971-69-371-8. a b Peake, Amber (31 July 2020). "Miriam Margolyes partner: Who is Miriam's partner Heather?". Express.co.uk . Retrieved 5 November 2021.

This extremely rich and theoretically sophisticated book’s impact goes beyond early modern Southeast Asian history. Seaways and Gatekeepersforces us to reconsider how much frontiers shape the history of state formation and nation-building in the region.” In this book, trade provides the integrating framework for local and regional histories that cover more than three hundred years, from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, when new technologies and changing markets helped lead to Western dominance. This book presents theories from the social sciences and economics that can help liberate scholars from dependence on states as narrative frameworks. It will also appeal to those working on wider themes such as global history, state formation, the evolution of markets, and anthropology. Appendix - The Administrative Territories of the Nineteenth-Century Dutch East Indies and their Populations Schulte Nordholt, H. G. C.; Raben, R., eds. (2005). "Contingent Devices". Locating Southeast Asia Geographies of Knowledge and Politics of Space. Leiden: Brill. pp.20–59. doi: 10.1163/9789004434882_003. ISBN 9789004434882. An online presentation of more than 250 archival images (and growing) of the eastern archipelagoes of Southeast Asia. This is a kind of internet appendix to Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos ofSeaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600–c.1906, Heather Sutherland (NUS Press, May 2021)

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Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, C.1600-c.1906. NUS Press. 2021. ISBN 978-981-325-122-9. Sutherland, Heather (2003). "Southeast Asian History and the Mediterranean Analogy" (PDF). Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 34 (1): 1–20. doi: 10.1017/S0022463403000018. S2CID 55467229. Sutherland met Miriam Margolyes in 1967 and they have been partners since then. [8] [9] However, they do not live together and spend sporadic periods in London, Tuscany, and Australia. [10] Margolyes described Sutherland as an " introvert" [11] and the secret to their lasting relationship as "not living together." [10] Publications [ edit ] Key research papers [ edit ] Sutherland, Heather (2007). "The Problematic Authority of (World) History". Journal of World History. 18 (4): 491–522. doi: 10.1353/jwh.2008.0004. JSTOR 20079450. S2CID 141817893. By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing servicesSoutheast Asia. Seaways and gatekeepers: Trade and state in the eastern archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600–c.1906 By Heather Sutherland Singapore: NUS Press, 2021. Pp. xv + 537. Maps, Images, Bibliography, Index. | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge Core Sutherland was born in 1943. [2] She took up Asian studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, [3] obtaining an M.A. in 1967. Her dissertation was on the literary intellectuals of Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies. [4] Her research about the Dutch history and visit to the Netherlands inspired her to work there for most of her later career. In 1970, she started her academic profession as a history teacher at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [3]