Dougald J. W. O'Reilly

Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia presents a fascinating synthesis of research on the prehistoric societies of mainland Southeast Asia. Drawing on archaeological and historical research, both old and new, Dougald O'Reilly provides a general picture of the events that shaped the region in ancient times, covering the rise of the Pyu civilization in Myanmar, the Mon and Dvaravati kingdoms of Thailand, the early polities of peninsular Malaysia, the Khmer kingdoms of Cambodia, and the rise of Champa in Vietnam. This is a book that will interest both scholars and students of archaeology, anthropology, history, and Asian studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216308669
• Artikelnr.: 75139490

Autorenporträt

Dougald O'Reilly is a professor in the school of Archaeology and Anthropology at Australian National University. In response to the looting of archaeological sites in Cambodia, a non-governmental organization called Heritage Watch (www.heritagewatchinternational.org) was founded by O'Reilly in 2003 in an effort to combat the loss of heritage in Cambodia. Heritage Watch established a nationwide education campaign highlighting the importance of heritage and continues to work in heritage preservation, currently running a programme called Heritage for Kids.

Inhaltsangabe

2 Introduction
3 The Tircul (Pyu) and Arakan of Myanmar
4 Peninsular Southeast Asia
5 The Mon Protostates: Dvaravati and Myanmar
6 Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian Polities
7 Champa
8 Models of Political Development
9 Socio-Political Change in Early Southeast Asia