Milton Osborne
Teoksen Southeast Asia: An Introductory History tekijä
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Dr Milton Osborne is a writer and consultant on Asian issues and the author of many books, including Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness, River Road to China; The Mekong: Turbulent past, uncertain future; and Exploring Southeast Asia: A traveller's guide to the region. He is a regular näytä lisää visitor to Southeast Asia and for the past decade has been a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney. näytä vähemmän
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Arts of Southeast Asia from the Powerhouse Museum Collection: From the Powerhouse Museum Collection (2001) — Tekijä — 10 kappaletta
Strategic Significance of the Mekong, The 2 kappaletta
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- Virallinen nimi
- Osborne, Milton Edgeworth
- Syntymäaika
- 1936-04-17
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- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Australia
- Ammatit
- historian
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The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future Tekijä: Milton Osborne
River Road to China: The Search for the Source of the Mekong, 1866-73 (Search for the Sources of the Mekong, 1866-73) is the book to read, regarding Western exploration of the Mekong, in-depth. This effort by Osborne is a good primer for those interested in the Mekong River and the lands it flows through.
I have read a number of Milton Osborne's book on SE Asia and have learned much about its history from him. However, I find it puzzling that they have a glaring omission when he writes about the early history. There is no mention of the Mon people, who were one of the earliest inhabitants of SE Asia and were responsible for the spread of Theravada Buddhism in Thailand, Laos, and Burma. Their Dvaravati kingdom pre-dated and was a contemporary of the Angkor kingdom before being invaded by them.
Throughout the book “The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future”, Milton Osborne details the experiences of the early Mekong explorations of the French expedition team back in the colonial era. Major French exploration which started in 1866 from Saigon in Vietnam upstream to Yunnan in China lasted about two years, and enabled the surveyors to map out quite detailed information, though some were still very much inaccurate, geographical characteristic of the river as a groundwork for their future utilization and control.… (lisätietoja)
Southeast Asia, History, Thailand, Viet Nam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Phillipines
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