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Southeast Asian Transitions; Approaches Through Social History. Edited by McVey Ruth T. with Suddard Adrienne. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978. Pp. ix + 242. $17.50.)

The editor of this volume places its five studies of the impact of colonialism on Southeast Asian local communities on the micro-historical level. The book, dedicated to the memory of Harry J. Benda, is the work of Benda's students and close associates. The collection of case studies can be considered a product of Benda's concern for the need of micro-historical investigations which could link "the specifics of local change to a larger concern for social pattern" (p. 5). The units for study are defined by the criteria of scale"small and relatively simple"—and subordination-the relationship to the center. As for the first criterion, the communities range from the Trengganu Sultanate (Heather Sutherland) to the Cagayan Valley of northeast Luzon (Edilberto C. De Jesus) along with the Madiun Residency of East Java (Onghokham), Luzon's Pampanga province (John Larkin), and the diverse ethnic communities of Burma's Irrawaddy delta (Dorothy Hess Guyot). The second criterion is of far more importance in unifying the diverse materials intellectually. The analytical thread is the shift of power from local to central political units as colonial forces economically and bureaucratically subverted the social structures and value basis underpinning the authority of members of the traditional indigenous supra-village elite.