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Citizenship
  
British

Name
  
O. Wolters

Institutions
  
Cornell University

Role
  
Historian


Doctoral advisor
  
D.G.E. Hall

Fields
  
History

Influences
  
George Coedes

Influenced by
  
George Cœdes


Born
  
8 June 1915 Reading, England (
1915-06-08
)

Alma mater
  
Oxford University (BA, 1937) SOAS (PhD, 1961)

Notable students
  
Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Andaya, Reynaldo Ileto, Charnvit Kasetsiri, Anthony Milner, Craig Reynolds, M. C. Ricklefs, Shiraishi Takashi

Died
  
December 5, 2000, Ithaca, New York, United States

Education
  
SOAS, University of London (1961), University of Oxford

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
History - culture - and regio, Early Indonesian Commerce, Early Southeast Asia: Sel, Two Essays on Dai‑Viet i, The fall of Srīvijaya in Malay

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.

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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
  • References

    O. W. Wolters Wikipedia