Oliver William Wolters (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
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Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about O. W. Wolters,
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* ''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
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Guggenheim Fellowship, 1972
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(AAS), 1990 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies
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1990 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies
retrieved 2011-06-06
Notes
References
"Oliver W. Wolters,"''SEAP Bulletin'' (US). Winter/Spring 2002, p. 3
''New York Times'' (US). 16 December 2000
External links
Monologue, Dialogue and Tran Vietnam: A manuscript composed of materials completed by O. W. Wolters before his deathPDF
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1915 births
2000 deaths
Historians of Southeast Asia
Alumni of SOAS University of London
Cornell University faculty
Cornell University Department of History faculty
20th-century British historians