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James Francis Warren

b. 1942 · 20th century · Also known as James Warren

James Francis Warren is an American-born historian of Southeast Asia, long based at Murdoch University in Western Australia. His book The Sulu Zone, 1768–1898 (1981) showed how the China trade drew the Sulu Sultanate into a system of slave raiding and labour, and he has also written social histories of Singapore and of maritime raiding.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). James Francis Warren. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/james-francis-warren
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