Leading port cities in the Eastern Martaban Bay in the context of autonomous history -- Pegu in politics and trade, ninth to seventeenth centuries -- Arakan's ascent during the Mrauk U period -- Towards a history of seventeenth-century Phuket -- Seventeenth-century port city in Vietnam: autonomous history in the absence of a single centralized kingdom -- Power relations between the Orang Laut and the Malay Kingdoms of Melaka and Johor during the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries -- Afterword: autonomy's meanings

1. Southeast Asia -- History
2. social sciences