Anthony Reid (academic)
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Anthony Reid is a New Zealand-born historian of Southeast Asia. His doctoral work at Cambridge Universioty examined the contest for power in northern Sumatra in the late 19th century, and he extended this study into a book The Blood of the People on the national and social revolutions in that region 1945-49. He is most famous for his "Age of Commerce" thesis, developed during his time at the Australian National University in Canberra. He worked for a time at the University of Californiua Los Angeles and was later foundation director of the Asia Research Institute in Singapore. His later work returned to Sumatra and he strongly advocated a historical basis for the separate identity of Aceh.
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