New Books Network: Empires of the Southern Ocean

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In this episode of the New Books in Southeast Asian Studies Podcast, Dougald O’Reilly discusses his new book, Empires of the Southern Ocean: Early Civilizations of Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), which offers a sweeping and authoritative account of the emergence, expansion, and transformation of early state-level societies across the regions that encompass present-day Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

This episode was produced by NYSEAN Partner, the New Books Network.

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