Milton Osborne
Milton Edgeworth Osborne,AMis an Australianhistorian,author, and consultant specializing inSoutheast Asia.
Education
[edit]Osborne attendedNorth Sydney Boys High School,graduated from theUniversity of Sydneyand received hisDoctor of PhilosophyfromCornell University.At the University of Sydney in the 1950s, he studied history withJill Ker Conway.[1]At Cornell University, he studied Southeast Asian history withOW Wolters.
Academic career
[edit]Osborne held academic positions in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Singapore. Osborne's main historical contribution had been to synthesize the history of the region as a whole, rather than concentrate on the histories of the present-day nations.
Osborne's Southeast Asia association began in 1959 with an Australian diplomatic posting toPhnom Penh.In 1980 and 1981 Osborne advised theUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugeeson the Cambodian refugee problem. In 1982 he returned to Australia, working as Head of the Asia Branch of theOffice of National Assessments,also serving for a year as Head of Current Intelligence.
Osborne now lives in Sydney and continues to write while consulting on Asian issues, as well as having been a series editor on theShort History of Asia Seriespublished by Allen and Unwin.[2]
Honours
[edit]Osborne was appointed aMember of the Order of Australiain the2021 Australia Day Honoursfor "significant service to history as an author."[3]
Books
[edit]- Singapore and Malaysia(1964)
- Strategic Hamlets in South Viet-Nam: A Survey and a Comparison(1965)
- The French Presence in Cochinchina and Cambodia: Rule and Response (1859–1905)(1969, reprinted 1997)
- Region of Revolt: Focus on Southeast Asia(1970)
- Politics and Power in Cambodia: The Sihanouk Years(Longman, 1973)
- River Road to China: The Mekong River Expedition, 1866–1873(London and New York, 1975)
- Southeast Asia: An Introductory History(eleven editions, 1979–2013)[4]
- Before Kampuchea: Preludes to Tragedy(1979)
- Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness(1994)
- River Road to China: The Search for the Source of the Mekong, 1866–73(Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999)ISBN0-87113-752-6
- The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future,Allen & Unwin, Sydney (2000),ISBN1-86508-219-8
- The paramount power: China and the countries of Southeast Asia,(2006)[5]
- Phnom Penh: A Cultural and Literary History(2008)
- Pol Pot Solved the Leprosy Problem, Connor Court Publishing, Redland Bay, (2018), ISBN 9781925501803
Articles
[edit]- "Francis Garnier (1839–1873), Explorer of the Mekong River",Explorers of South-east Asia, Six Lives,ed.Victor T. King,(Kuala Lumpur:OUP,1995)
- River at risk: the Mekong and the water politics of China and Southeast Asia
References
[edit]- ^Jill Ker Conway 'The Road from Coorain' William Heinemann 1989.
- ^Curtis Andressen; Milton Osborne (Editor) (2002),A Short History of Japan From Samurai to Sony (Short History of Asia series, A)Paperback,Allen & Unwin (published 2003),ISBN978-1-86508-516-6
{{citation}}:|author2=has generic name (help) - ^"Australia Day 2021 Honours List"(PDF).Governor General of Australia.Retrieved25 January2021.
- ^Osborne, Milton E (April 2013),Southeast Asia: an introductory history(11th ed.), Crows Nest, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin (published 2013),ISBN978-1-74331-267-4
- ^Osborne, Milton; Lowy Institute for International Policy (2006),The paramount power: China and the countries of Southeast Asia(1st ed.), Published for Lowy Institute for International Policy [by] Longueville Media,ISBN978-1-921004-21-6
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