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History without Borders NEW (2011/09/11)
Astride the historical maritime silk routes linking India to China, premodern East and Southeast Asia can be viewed as a global region in the making over a long period. Intense Asian commerce in spices, silks, and ceramics placed the region in the forefront of global economic history prior to the age of imperialism...
Though national perspectives stubbornly dominate the writing of Asian history, even powerful state-centric narratives have to be re-examined with respect to shifting identities and contested boundaries. This book situates itself in a new genre of writing on borderland zones between nations, especially prior to the emergence of the modern nation-state.
Older news
Announcing new publication NEW (2011/01/03)
Historical Dictionary of East Timor
Announcing new publication (2010/08/31)
New publication (with Reyko Huang) New Nation: Peace-building in East Timor is available on-line from Selectbooks.com (Singapore). It is also available where it matters, namely in East Timor from Loja de Tais (Tais Shop) inside the Timor Hotel, Dili.
geoffreycgunn.com back up. NEW (2010/06/20)
Website has been renewed.
Interviewed (2006/06/15)
Author interviewed in Portuguese media (Macau).
(with Reyko Huang) New Nation: Peace-building in East Timor (2006/05/25)
New publication (with Reyko Huang) New Nation: Peace-building in East Timor on sale in various bookstores in Macau, including Livraria Portuguesa. Shortly available from Australia-East Timor Association (Melbourne and Sydney). This book is the first to explain the rationale and context of the latest conflict in East Timor. Online orders will be accepted in near future.
Timor Lorosae: 500 tahun (2006/02/19)
Two additional chapters of the Indonesian translation of Timor Lorosae: 500 years have been released.
Viqueque Rebellion (2006/02/09)
Draft for "Revisiting the Viqueque Rebellion of 1959" 
forthcoming in Timor-Leste: An Anthropology of War and Liberation, Research Institute of Southeast Asia, Faculty of Economics, Nagasaki University, Monograph n.37. has been uploaded.
Complicity in Genocide
CAVR 2005 Report, Complicity in Genocide: Report to the East Timor "Truth Commission" on International Actors has been uploaded.
Student Information
The Study Guide for First Globalization can be downloaded from the Publications page.
Other Information
Constructive comments on content are welcome as is ordering information for the listed books.
Introduction
Welcome to the homepage of Geoffrey C. Gunn.
I am an educator and writer currently based in Nagasaki in Japan. In fact I have been teaching at the local university for some ten years though I have spent much more time teaching and researching in various Southeast Asian countries. More or less, in teaching and writing I combine Asian studies with a range of social science enquiries; from political science, to development concerns, to anthropology and biography. I have also written dedicated studies on a number of cultures and places; Brunei, Laos, and Macau to name a few.
Check out some of my books and writings through the "Publications" link. As a teacher I have also traveled. I also learned that there is no universal model of a "university", just institutions keyed to the needs of various cultures and polities. Moving in and out of these "universities" has often been a surreal experience for me as much my students, I dare say. Check out my checkered experience as a peripatetic professor through the Biography link.
I have also invested much energy into intensive fieldwork in a number of sites, just as I have traveled extensively across Afro-Eurasia from a fairly young age. In the last few years I have devoted much time to the study of the small half-island state of East Timor, not only history and society but also the events surrounding its emergence as a new nation following a period under United Nations stewardship. As this site develops I will introduce certain of my writings relating to East Timor and UN involvement.
