James R. Rush

James Robert Rush is an American historian and professor of history at Arizona State University. He studied modern Southeast Asian history at Yale University and obtained his PhD in 1977. Rush is a scholar of modern Southeast Asia. He has served as director of Arizona State University's Program for Southeast Asian Studies and as faculty head of history at the university. As a consultant, Rush worked with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Asia Society, and El Colegio de México. Rush's own essays in the Ramon Magsaysay Award series include Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Abdurrahman Wahid, Bienvenido Lumbera, Ravi Shankar, Veditantirige Ediriwira Sarachchandra, and Fei Xiaotong.

Hamka's Great Story: A Master Writer's Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016) According to WorldCat, in 554 libraries

Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860–1910 (Cornell University Press, 1990), 1990/2007) According to WorldCat, in 284 libraries

Translated into Indonesian by Tasha Agrippina as Candu tempo doeloe : pemerintah, pengedar dan pecandu, 1860–1910

Java: A Travellers' Anthology (Oxford University Press, 1996) According to WorldCat, in 93 libraries

Translated into Indonesian by Maria Agustina as Jawa tempo doeloe : 650 tahun bertemu dunia barat : 1330–1985

The Last Tree: Reclaiming the Environment in Tropical Asia ( Westview Press, 1991) According to WorldCat, in 318 libraries

Asia in Western Fiction (with Robin W. Winks) (University of Hawaii Press, 1989) According to WorldCat, in 475 libraries