Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680 is a two-volume work by Australian historian Anthony Reid, published by Yale University Press. Volume I (1988), The Lands Below the Winds describes the pre-colonial region in terms of environment, physical well-being, material culture, social organisation and leisure activity. Volume II (1993), Expansion and Crisis, defines the period through the rise and fall of external trade, urbanism, the political domination of maritime gunpowder states, and the transition to scriptural religions. Source: Wikipedia (en)