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Australian historian of Southeast Asia at Murdoch University, whose studies of the Sulu Zone made the sultanate’s trading and raiding world a field of its own.

1981In print
The Sulu Zone, 1768–1898James Francis Warren
NUS Press
The Sulu Sultanate at its height as a trading state: the China trade in sea produce, the slave raiding that fed it, and the peoples it drew in, from Spanish, British and Dutch archives. The book that made the Sulu Zone a field of study. Second edition 2007.

2002In print
Iranun and BalangingiJames Francis Warren
NUS Press
The Iranun and Balangingi raiders of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the world economy that called their raiding into being, and how a way of life became an ethnic name.