2005.  The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

2000.  White Love and Other Events in Filipino History. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

1993.  Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

1999.  Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines and Colonial Vietnam. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications.

1995.  Discrepant Histories: Translocal Essays on Filipino Cultures. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

1999.  Translation and Revenge: Castilian and the Origins of Nationalism in the Philippines. Chapter in The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America. Doris Sommer, ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.