1. For background see Robert Cribb, Historical Atlas of Indonesia (Richmond: Curzon, 2000);
2. M. C. Ricklefs, A History of Modern Indonesia: Since C.1200 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).
3. Clive Moore, New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History (Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 2003).
4. Heather Sutherland, ’southeast Asian History and the Mediterranean Analogy’, Journal of Southeast Asian History 34, 1 (2003): 1–20;
5. Angela Schottenhammer, ed., The East Asian Mediterranean-Maritime Crossroads of Culture, Commerce, and Human Migration (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2009);