The Archive of Yogyakarta is almost unique among Asian document collections, and one cannot overestimate its significance for scholarly research into the history of Java. Complementing Volume I (1980), which published selected documents of political importance, Volume II considers the Archive as a whole and what it reveals about the government and the economy of Yogyakarta.
Laithwaite Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford. Peter Carey works on the history, contemporary politics and socio-economic development of Southeast Asia, specialising on Indonesia, East Timor, Cambodia and Burma.