1. The Role of the Environment
The Peninsula and Islands: Mountains, Plateau and Plains (maps 1 & 2, text)
Reading: E H G Dobby, Southeast Asia (London, 1950) EUL .91(59) Dob
Southeast Asia as a Physical Unit: Climate and History (maps 3 & 4,5; text)
The Sub-Tropical Monsoon Area: Characteristics
Climatic Change in Historical PerspectiveReading: I Blanchard, "The Medieval World of Islam: an Environmental and Economic Analysis", paper presented at IMC, Leeds 2001 also found in the same author's Mining Metallurgy and Minting in the Middle Ages (Stuttgart, 2001), volume 1, chapter 3. EUL. TN17Bla
2-3 Societies and Economies
2. The Mountains and Mountain People (text)
Reading: Charles Higham, The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989) chapter 2§2 pages 45-61 EUL DS 523 Hig
The Plains: Agriculture, Village Life and Rice CultivationReading: Charles Higham, The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989) chapter 2§1 pages 33-43; chapter 3 pages 92-189. EUL DS 523 Hig; Paul Wheatley, Nagara and Commandry Origins of Southeast Asian Urban Traditions (Chicago: UC, Dept. of Geography, Research Papers Nos. 207-208, 1983), chapter 2§6, pages 82-89. EUL HT147.A785 Whe
3. Urban Society: "Orthogenetic" and "Heterogenetic" Cities (text)
Reading: Michael D Coe, Angkor and the Khmer Civilization (London: Thames and Hudson, 2003), pp. 64-68.EUL DS 554.42 Coe; Paul Wheatley, Nagara and Commandry. Origins of Southeast Asian Urban Traditions (Chicago:UC, Dept. of Geography, Research Papers Nos. 207-208, 1983), chapters 3-4. EUL HT147.A785 Whe
4-9. The Geopolitical Situation
4. Indianized and Sinicized Territories (text)
Reading: Charles Higham, The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989) chapter 5§1 pages 242-245 EUL DS 523 Hig; Paul Wheatley, Nagara and Commandry. Origins of Southeast Asian Urban Traditions (Chicago:UC, Dept. of Geography, Research Papers Nos. 207-208, 1983), chapters 7-8. EUL HT147.A785 Whe; F D K Bosch, "The Problem of the Hindu Colonisation of Indonesia" in Selected Studies in Indonesian Archaeology (The Hague: Koninklijk Instituut vor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, V, 1961), pp. 1-22 EUL .913 (91) Bos
Texts: H A Giles, The travels of Fa-hsien 399-414 AD (Cambridge, 1923,reprinted London, 1956) EUL .91(31:34) Fah; Hsüan-Tsang, Si-yü-ki, translated Samual Beale (London, 2 vols., 1884) EUL .29432 Hsu
5. The Formation of the Southeast Asian Mandalas (Polities) to ca 850 AD. (text)
The Han Commandaries: Bac Bo and Champa- the Linyi; the Khmer Mandalas: The Middle Mekong and the Tonle Sap Plains, (550-802 AD); The Dvaravati: The Chao Phraya Plains (200-950 AD); the Malay Peninsula.Reading: Charles Higham, The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge UP., 1989); Paul Wheatley, The Golden Khersonese: Studies in the Historical Geography of the Malay Peninsula before 1500 AD (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1973) EUL.911(595) Whe. and the same author's Nagara and Commandry. Origins of Southeast Asian Urban Traditions (Chicago:UC, Dept. of Geography, Research Papers Nos. 207-208, 1983)
For additional information on current excavations at the "Funan-ese" site of Angkor Borei you should go to the University of Hawaii home page: http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu then go to link to special projects and then link to Lower Mekong Archaeological Project (LOMAP)
6-7. Angkor and the Peninsula "Empire" of the Khmer, 802-1431 AD.
Dynastic History and Main Historical Events; Angkor and the Pursuit of Perfection-Ritual Life; Divisions of Khmer Society; Administration of the City and Empire-Taxation; Law and Order; Warfare and the MilitaryLECTURES 6 & 7: TEXT------------PLAN: ANGKOR-----------------------MAP
Double click above to access these sites and in Plan: Angkor double click on pictures to return
Reading: Michael D Coe, Angkor and the Khmer Civilization (London: Thames and Hudson, 2003) EUL DS 554.42 Coe. George Cœdès, Angkor: An Introduction (Hongkong-London-NY: Oxford UP., 1963) EUL DS 554 98.A5 Coe; Eleanor Mannika, Angkor Wat. Time, Space and Kingship (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996) EUL .726143 (596) Man Luis Gomez and Hiram W Woodward (eds.), Barabudur. History and Significance of a Buddhist Monument (Berkeley: Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series 2, 1981) EUL .726143 (922) Bar
Texts: Zhou Daguan (Chou Ta-kuan), The Customs of Cambodia. Edited and translated from the French by Michael Smithies (Bangkok: The Siam Society, 2001)
8. The Commercial "Empire" of Srivijaya, 800-1250 AD and the polities of the Malay Peninsula. (text)
Reading: Oliver W Wolters, Early Indonesian Commerce: A Study of the Origins of Srivijaya (Ithica NY: Cornell University Press, 1967) EUL .382(9101) Wol. Oliver W Wolters, The Fall of Srivijaya in Malay History (London: Lund Humphries, 1970) EUL .9(595) Wol.Indonesian Trade and Society Essays in Asian Economic and Social History by J C van Leur (The Hague: The Royal Tropical Society, Amsterdam, 1967), On Early Asian Trade, Chapters 2-3, pp 44-116. EUL .382 (91) Leu
Texts: F Hirth and W W Rockhill, Chau Ju-kua, His work on the Chinese and Arab trade in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, entitled Chu-fan-chî (St Petersburg, 1911). W W Rockhill, "Notes on the relations and trade of China with the Eastern Archipeligo and the coasts of the Indian Ocean during the fourteenth century, parts 1- 2", T'oung Pao, XV- XVI (1914-15), EUL Per. 9 Tou, which provides translations of Wang Ta-Yuan, Tao-i Chih-lioh,(1340); Fei-Hsin, Hsing-ch'a Sheng-lan or "Description of the starry raft" (1436) and Ma-Huan, Ying-yai Sheng-lan or "The Overall Survey of the Ocean's shores" (1451). A new edition of Ma-Huan's, Ying-yai Sheng-lan (1451) entitled Ma-Huan, Ying-yai Sheng-lan.'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's shores' [1433], translated from the Chinese text edited by Feng Ch'eng-Chün with introduction, notes and appendices by J V G Mills (Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, Extra Series, XLII, 1970) EUL G.161 Ma
9. The Successor Mandalas of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (text)
The Peninsula "Empires": Ayutthaya-based Thai and Dai-Viet
Reading: Michael D Coe, Angkor and the Khmer Civilization (London: Thames and Hudson, 2003), chapter 8. EUL DS 554.42 Coe
The Maritime "Empires": Malacca and the Advent of the Portuguese
Reading: Oliver W Wolters, The Fall of Srivijaya in Malay History (London: Lund Humphries, 1970) EUL .9(595) Wol. Indonesian Trade and Society Essays in Asian Economic and Social History by J C van Leur (The Hague: The Royal Tropical Society, Amsterdam, 1967), On Early Asian Trade, Chapter 4, pp. 117-144 and The World of Southeast Asia 1500-1650, pp.157-245 EUL .382 (91) Leu. M A P Meilink-Roelofsz, Asian Trade and European Influence (The Hague, 1962) NLS NF 1244.a.4
Texts: Birch, W. de Gray, The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque (London: Hakluyt Society, LIII, LV, LXII, LXIX, 1875-1884) EUL .9104 Alb; Cortesão, A. (ed. & trans.), The Suma Oriental of Thomé Pires. An Account of the East from the Red Sea to Japan, written in Malacca and India in 1512-1515 (London: Hakluyt Society, Second Series, LXXXIX & XC. 1944) EUL Special Collections RP; Dames, M. L. (ed.), The Book of Duarte Barbosa. An Account of the Counties Bordering the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants…completed about the Year 1518 (London: Hakluyt Society, Second Series, XLIV & XLIX. 1918-21) EUL RB13
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