Session: The Classical States of Southeast Asia ~ PowerPoint© Presentation
Session Reading List:
Keith Taylor, “The Early Kingdoms,” in The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. One, From Early Times to c. 1800, Cambridge University Press, 1992. (pp137-182)
Optional:
G. Carter Bentley, “Indigenous States in Southeast Asia,” American Review of Anthropology, 15, 1986. (pp275-299)
Michael Aung-Thwin received his PhD from The University of Michigan and is professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawai`i at Manoa. His recent publications include “ Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Burma: Paradigms, Primary Sources, and Prejudices and Irrigation” in The Heartland of Burma: Foundations of the Pre-Colonial Burmese State. In addition, he is co-editor (with Miriam Stark) of The Archaeology of Myanma Pyay ( Burma): Special Burma Issue ( University of Hawai`i Press, 2001). Dr. Aung-Thwin has also recently produced an interactive CD-ROM entitled “ The Making of Modern Burma.”
