O. W. Wolters

British historian
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBritish historian
A.K.A.Oliver William Wolters
A.K.A.Oliver William Wolters
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
wasHistorian Educator
Work fieldAcademia Social science
Gender
Male
Birth8 June 1915, Reading
Death5 December 2000Ithaca (aged 85 years)
The details

Biography

Oliver William Wolters OBE (8 June 1915 – 5 December 2000) was a British academic, historian and author. He was also a Malayan civil servant and administrator. At his death, he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of Southeast Asian History Emeritus at Cornell University.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about O. W. Wolters, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 20+ works in 90+ publications in 4 languages and 2,200+ library holdings.

  • The Khmer King at Basan (1371-1373) and the Restoration of the Cambodian Chronology during the 14th and 15th Centuries (1965)
  • Early Indonesian Commerce: a Study of the Origins of Srĭvijaya. (1962)
  • Some Reflections on the Subject of Ayudhyā and the World (1967)
  • Southeast Asian History and Historiography: Essays Presented to D.G.E. Hall (1976)
  • History, Culture and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives (1982)
  • The Fall of Śrīvijaya in Malay History (1970)
  • Culture and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives (1982)
  • Two essays on Đại-Việt in the Fourteenth Century (1988)
  • Perdagangan awal Indonesia: satu kajian asal usul kerajaan Srivijaya (1989)
  • Early Southeast Asia: Selected Essays (2008)
  • Monologue, Dialogue, and Tran Vietnam (2009)

Honors

  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 1972
  • Association for Asian Studies (AAS), 1990 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies

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