The Armies Of Angkor

Author : Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067741515

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The Armies of Angkor by Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h Pdf

The Khmers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries are best remembered by the magnificent monuments that they left the world-the ruins of Angkor Wat, the Bayon and Banteay Chmar and other relics at Siem Reap now attract over a million visitors annually. The Khmers, as well as visionary architects and builders, were by far the most formidable fighting force of Southeast Asia, and much of their fabled wealth was generated directly from the spoils of their conquests. In the present volume, drawing on depictions of warfare found on the stone reliefs of the monuments mentioned above, French scholar Jacq-Hergoualc'h reconstructs a vivid image of the Khmer army, providing insight into its organization, technology and strategies. Essential reading not only for those with interest in the history of war and weaponry but for all who seek a better understanding of the brilliant culture of the creators of Angkor.

Author : Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783863950323

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World Heritage Angkor and Beyond by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin Pdf

"Angkor, the temple and palace complex of the ancient Khmer capital in Cambodiais one of the world's most famous monuments. Hundreds of thousands oftourists from all over the globe visit Angkor Park, one of the finest UNESCO WorldHeritage Sites, every year. Since its UNESCO listing in 1992, the Angkor regionhas experienced an overwhelming mushrooming of hotels and restaurants; theinfrastructure has been hardly able to cope with the rapid growth of mass tourismand its needs. This applies to the access and use of monument sites as well. The authors of this book critically describe and analyse the heritage nominationprocesses in Cambodia, especially in the case of Angkor and the temple ofPreah Vihear on the Cambodian/Thai border. They examine the implications theUNESCO listings have had with regard to the management of Angkor Park andits inhabitants on the one hand, and to the Cambodian/Thai relationships on theother. Furthermore, they address issues of development through tourism thatUNESCO has recognised as a welcome side-effect of heritage listings. They raisethe question whether development through tourism deepens already existinginequalities rather than contributing to the promotion of the poor"--Publisher's description.

Author : Mary Moriarty
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434912639

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The Kings of Angkor by Mary Moriarty Pdf

Author : Justin Corfield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313357237

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The History of Cambodia by Justin Corfield Pdf

This book includes a narrative history that provides a chronological examination of the political, cultural, philosophical, social, and religious continuities in Cambodia's long rich history. It overviews the history of Cambodia, from the fall of Angkor and the French Protectorate period (1432-1863) to the present. More than half of the book is dedicated to the period from 1970 through the present, with chapters on the Khmer Republic, Democratic Kampuchea, the second civil war, the road to democracy, and Cambodia under Hun Sen. An introductory chapter overviews the country's geography, political institutions, economy, and culture. The book includes black & white historical and contemporary photographs, a chronology, and profiles of key figures.

Author : Guy D. Middleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107151499

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Understanding Collapse by Guy D. Middleton Pdf

In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.

Author : Chris Baker,Pasuk Phongpaichit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107190764

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A History of Ayutthaya by Chris Baker,Pasuk Phongpaichit Pdf

The first full history of a great commercial and political center that rose in Asia over almost five centuries.

Author : John Audric
Publisher : Robert Hale
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054092088

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Angkor and the Khmer Empire by John Audric Pdf

Author : Mitch Hendrickson,Miriam T. Stark,Damian Evans
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351128926

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The Angkorian World by Mitch Hendrickson,Miriam T. Stark,Damian Evans Pdf

The Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asia’s largest ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE. Chapters by leading scholars combine evidence from archaeology, texts, and the natural sciences to introduce the Angkorian state, describe its structure, and explain its persistence over more than six centuries. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying premodern Asia. The volume’s first of six sections provides historical and environmental contexts and discusses data sources and the nature of knowledge production. The next three sections examine the anthropogenic landscapes of Angkor (agrarian, urban, and hydraulic), the state institutions that shaped the Angkorian state, and the economic foundations on which Angkor operated. Part V explores Angkorian ideologies and realities, from religion and nation to identity. The volume’s last part reviews political and aesthetic Angkorian legacies in an effort to explain why the idea of Angkor remains central to its Cambodian descendants. Maps, graphics, and photographs guide readers through the content of each chapter. Chapters in this volume synthesise more than a century of work at Angkor and in the regions it influenced. The Angkorian World will satisfy students, researchers, academics, and the knowledgeable layperson who seeks to understand how this great Angkorian Empire arose and functioned in the premodern world. The Prologue and Chapters 2, 10, 15, 23, 30 and 32 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Michael Charney
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047406921

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Southeast Asian Warfare, 1300-1900 by Michael Charney Pdf

This study offers a comprehensive look at warfare -- its meaning, culture, technology, tactics, and organization -- in an area of the world previously neglected by military historians.

Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226264530

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Elephants & Kings by Thomas R. Trautmann Pdf

Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in this study, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war. Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its forests.

Author : John Burgess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 6164510465

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Angkor's Temples in the Modern Era by John Burgess Pdf

- Accessible scholarly treatment of one of the world's most iconic sites John Burgess masterfully brings to life the modern history of Cambodia's fabled Angkor temples, from their "discovery" by French explorers in the mid-19th century, through to the latter part of the 20th century, when celebrity visitors included a well publicised one by Jackie Onassis and making Angkor one of the top 3 monuments to visit in the world. An invaluable and riveting book about one of the greatest man-made wonders in the world.

Author : Geoff Ryman
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Archaeological thefts
ISBN : 9781931520560

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The King's Last Song, Or, Kraing Meas by Geoff Ryman Pdf

Can a twelfth-century Cambodian king's sense of compassion and justice translate to the present?

Author : John Norman Miksic,Goh Geok Yian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317279037

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Ancient Southeast Asia by John Norman Miksic,Goh Geok Yian Pdf

Ancient Southeast Asia provides readers with a much needed synthesis of the latest discoveries and research in the archaeology of the region, presenting the evolution of complex societies in Southeast Asia from the protohistoric period, beginning around 500BC, to the arrival of British and Dutch colonists in 1600. Well-illustrated throughout, this comprehensive account explores the factors which established Southeast Asia as an area of unique cultural fusion. Miksic and Goh explore how the local population exploited the abundant resources available, developing maritime transport routes which resulted in economic and cultural wealth, including some of the most elaborate art styles and monumental complexes ever constructed. The book’s broad geographical and temporal coverage, including a chapter on the natural environment, provides readers with the context needed to understand this staggeringly diverse region. It utilizes French, Dutch, Chinese, Malay-Indonesian and Burmese sources and synthesizes interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives and data from archaeology, history and art history. Offering key opportunities for comparative research with other centres of early socio-economic complexity, Ancient Southeast Asia establishes the area’s importance in world history.

Author : Jan Mrazek,Morgan Pitelka
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824830632

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What's the Use of Art? by Jan Mrazek,Morgan Pitelka Pdf

Post-Enlightenment notions of culture, which have been naturalized in the West for centuries, require that art be autonomously beautiful, universal, and devoid of any practical purpose. The authors of this multidisciplinary volume seek to complicate this understanding of art by examining art objects from across Asia with attention to their functional, ritual, and everyday contexts. From tea bowls used in the Japanese tea ceremony to television broadcasts of Javanese puppet theater; from Indian wedding chamber paintings to art looted by the British army from the Chinese emperor’s palace; from the adventures of a Balinese magical dagger to the political functions of classical Khmer images—the authors challenge prevailing notions of artistic value by introducing new ways of thinking about culture. The chapters consider art objects as they are involved in the world: how they operate and are experienced in specific sites, collections, rituals, performances, political and religious events and imagination, and in individual peoples’ lives; how they move from one context to another and change meaning and value in the process (for example, when they are collected, traded, and looted or when their images appear in art history textbooks); how their memories and pasts are or are not part of their meaning and experience. Rather than lead to a single universalizing definition of art, the essays offer multiple, divergent, and case-specific answers to the question "What is the use of art?" and argue for the need to study art as it is used and experienced. Contributors: Cynthea J. Bogel, Louise Cort, Richard H. Davis, Robert DeCaroli, James L. Hevia, Janet Hoskins, Kaja McGowan, Jan Mrázek, Lene Pedersen, Morgan Pitelka, Ashley Thompson.

Author : John Burgess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 6167339252

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A Woman of Angkor by John Burgess Pdf

As her husband becomes King Suryavarman's closest confidant, Lady Sray fights to hide a secret connection to the king which becomes more complicated when Bopa, her daughter, becomes the king's concubine and Sovan, her son, designs Angkor Wat with a unique architectural vision.