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Author | : John Burgess |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9786164510463 |
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- 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 | : Vittorio Roveda |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Download Khmer Mythology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Burgess |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9786167339252 |
Download A Woman of Angkor Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Steve McCurry |
Publisher | : Verena Books |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2002-06-05 |
Genre | : Photography |
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Download Sanctuary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The temples of Angkor are one the world's most impressive archaeological treasures. The extensive network of ancient temples in Cambodia - a magical world of carved gods, weathered masonry, tangled vegetation and orange-robed monks, so long off-limits to Western visitors - are evocatively presented in Steve McCurry's unique style. An introduction by John Guy - an authority on the cultural history of Southeast Asia - provides an informative introduction to the history and architecture of the site and also explains its religious history and modern usage.
Author | : Michael Falser |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 1169 |
Release | : 2019-12-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 3110335840 |
Download Angkor Wat – A Transcultural History of Heritage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book unravels the formation of the modern concept of cultural heritage by charting its colonial, postcolonial-nationalist and global trajectories. By bringing to light many unresearched dimensions of the twelfth-century Cambodian temple of Angkor Wat during its modern history, the study argues for a conceptual, connected history that unfolded within the transcultural interstices of European and Asian projects. With more than 1,400 black-and-white and colour illustrations of historic photographs, architectural plans and samples of public media, the monograph discusses the multiple lives of Angkor Wat over a 150-year-long period from the 1860s to the 2010s. Volume 1 (Angkor in France) reconceptualises the Orientalist, French-colonial ‘discovery’ of the temple in the nineteenth century and brings to light the manifold strategies at play in its physical representations as plaster cast substitutes in museums and as hybrid pavilions in universal and colonial exhibitions in Marseille and Paris from 1867 to 1937. Volume 2 (Angkor in Cambodia) covers, for the first time in this depth, the various on-site restoration efforts inside the ‘Archaeological Park of Angkor’ from 1907 until 1970, and the temple’s gradual canonisation as a symbol of national identity during Cambodia’s troublesome decolonisation (1953–89), from independence to Khmer Rouge terror and Vietnamese occupation, and, finally, as a global icon of UNESCO World Heritage since 1992 until today.
Author | : Richard Sobol |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0763641669 |
Download The Mysteries of Angkor Wat Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A guided tour by local children leads the author--and readers--inside an ancient Cambodian temple and around its ruins, where they explore the mysteries of the site and discover a little-known secret. 12,000 first printing.
Author | : Michael D. Coe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780500284421 |
Download Angkor and the Khmer Civilization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A panoramic tour of Cambodian history traces its rediscovery in the mid-nineteenth century and what the latest findings have revealed about Khmer civilization, documenting such periods as the five-century part-Hindu, part-Buddhist empire, the gradual abandonment of Angkor, and the move of the capital downriver to the Phnom Penh area. Reprint.
Author | : Helen Ibbitson Jessup |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Angkor (Extinct city) |
ISBN | : 9786167339108 |
Download Temples of Cambodia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Burgess |
Publisher | : River Books Press Dist A C |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9786167339016 |
Download Stories in Stone Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the final months of 1979, a city was born in dry forestland along the border of Cambodia and Thailand. It was a city of refugees. The Khmer Rouge had been recently overthrown, and Cambodians fortunate enough to be alive were free to pick up and go where they wanted. Many chose to make for a frontier settlement that became known as Camp 007. The camp was located close to Sadok Kok Thom Temple, which became a focus of worship for the refugees. The temple contained one of the most important inscriptions in Khmer History, written by a high ranking Brahmin and detailing important political and religious events that took place in the Empire. The author discusses the history of the inscription, from its creation to the modern day as well as how modern and ancient history have merged around the temple over the past forty years. SELLING POINTS: A personal and historic account of Sadok Kok Thom Temple, weaving in the archaeology of Angkor with the political turmoil of Cambodia during the 1960s-70s 25 b/w illustrations
Author | : John Burgess |
Publisher | : River books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Cambodia |
ISBN | : 9786167339542 |
Download Temple in the Clouds Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Perched atop a five-hundred-meter cliff in the far north of Cambodia, Preah Vihear ranks among the world's holiest sites. It was built a millennium ago as a shrine to Hindu god Shiva by the same civilization that gave the world Angkor Wat. Sadly, it has been transformed recently into a battlefield prize, first with Cambodian factions during the Cambodian civil war, and later (to present) it has been the focus of sometimes violent border disputes with Thailand. In 'Temple in the Clouds' former Washington Post foreign correspondent John Burgess and author of two previous books on Cambodia, draws on extensive research in Cambodia, Thailand, France and the United States to recount the cliff top monument's full history, ancient and modern. He reveals previously unknown legal strategies and diplomatic manoeuvring behind a contentious World Court case of 1959-62 that awarded the temple to Cambodia. Written in a lively, accessible style, 'Temple in the Clouds' brings new insight to one of Southeast Asia's greatest temples and most intractable border conflicts. REVIEWS: 'Temple in the Clouds' is an accessible, handsomely illustrated book about an imposing Tenth Century Cambodian temple known as Preah Vihear. The temple lies close to the Thai-Cambodian border - a line on maps that didn't exist until the early 1900s. John Burgess deftly sets Preah Vihear in its religious and architectural context before going on to examine the conflict about 'ownership' of the temple that has inflamed Thai-Cambodian relations on and off since the early 1960s. -David Chandler, Monash University, author of 'A History of Cambodia' (4th edition, 2007). Southeast Asia is largely at peace today, but some disputes linger, sparking military skirmishes from time to time. The mountaintop Preah Vihear temple is one of them. John Burgess has done the region a great favour with his in-depth investigation of the temple - its ancient history and the tragic modern-day conflict. His findings will help to calm the waters - facts should trump myths and speculation. Scholars and policy makers in Southeast Asia and beyond should read this book carefully, as well as anyone curious about a place that is one of the crowning glories of Cambodia's lost Angkor civilisation. -Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and a former Singapore diplomat in Cambodia. 50 colour photos, plans and maps