James Robert Rush is an American historian and professor of history at Arizona State University.James Rush
Arizona State University, asu.edu He studied modern Southeast Asian history at

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and obtained his PhD in 1977. Rush is a scholar of modern

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainlan ...

. He has served as director of Arizona State University's Program for Southeast Asian Studies and as faculty head of history at the university. As a consultant, Rush worked with the

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, and

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Selected works

Rush's scholarship addresses issues of colonialism and religion in Indonesia during the nineteenth and the twentieth century. From 1987 to 2008 Rush also led the biography project of the

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. In connection with this project, Rush conducted interviews with more than one hundred awardees, and edited seven volumes of biographical essays.
James Rush, james-r-rush.com Rush's own essays in the

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Award series include

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, Veditantirige Ediriwira Sarachchandra, and

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. Rush's books include the following: * ''Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction'' (Oxford University Press, 2018). According to

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, the book is in 172 libraries * ''Hamka's Great Story: A Master Writer's Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia'' (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016) According to

, in 554 libraries * ''Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860–1910'' (Cornell University Press, 1990), 1990/2007) According to

, in 284 libraries ** Translated into Indonesian by Tasha Agrippina as ''Candu tempo doeloe : pemerintah, pengedar dan pecandu, 1860–1910'' * ''Java: A Travellers' Anthology'' (Oxford University Press, 1996) According to

, in 93 libraries ** Translated into Indonesian by Maria Agustina as ''Jawa tempo doeloe : 650 tahun bertemu dunia barat : 1330–1985'' * ''The Last Tree: Reclaiming the Environment in Tropical Asia'' ( Westview Press, 1991) According to

, in 318 libraries * ''Asia in Western Fiction'' (with

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) (University of Hawaiii Press, 1989) According to

, in 475 libraries
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References

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