M. C. Ricklefs

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Merle Calvin Ricklefs (born 1943^[1]) is a historian of Indonesia and Java.

He graduated from Cornell University. He has taught at University of London School of Oriental and Asian Studies, Australian National University, University of Melbourne, and National University of Singapore.

His publications have focused on the history of Mataram, Kartasura, Yogyakarta, Surakarta, and Indonesia. Few other living English speaking writers can claim the scope of knowledge of the history of Java from the 1600s to the twentieth century.

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Jogjakarta under Sultan Mangkubumi, 1749–1792: A history of the division of Java. London Oriental Series, vol. 30. London : Oxford University Press, 1974. Revised Indonesian edition 2002
(co-authored with P. Voorhoeve) Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain: A catalogue of manuscripts in Indonesian languages in British public collections. London Oriental Bibliographies, vol. 5. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1977
Modern Javanese historical tradition: A study of an original Kartasura chronicle and related materials. London : School of Oriental and African Studies, 1978
A history of modern Indonesia , ca. 1300 to the present. London & Basingstoke: Macmillan; Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1981. 2 nd edition (Palgrave and Stanford University Press) 1993. 3rd edition (Palgrave and Stanford University Press) 2001. Revised Indonesian edition 1991 (Gadjah Mada University Press); 2 nd revised Indonesian edition 2005 (Serambi)
War, culture and economy in Java, 1677–1726: Asian and European imperialism in the early Kartasura period. Sydney : Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with Allen and Unwin, 1993
(edited and translated) Pantheism and monism in Javanese suluk literature: Islamic and Indian mysticism in an Indonesian setting, by P.J. Zoetmulder, S.J. Ed. and transl. M. C. Ricklefs. Leiden : KITLV Press, 1995
The seen and unseen worlds in Java, 1726–49: History, literature and Islam in the court of Pakubuwana II. St. Leonards NSW: The Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with Allen and Unwin; Honolulu : The University of Hawai'i Press, 1998 ISBN 1864486279
Mystic synthesis in Java: A history of Islamization from the fourteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. White Plains , NY : EastBridge, 2006
(in press) Polarising Javanese society: Islamic and other visions, 1830-1930. NUS Press, the University of Hawai'i Press and the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Leiden.