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Uniquely Hawaii

By: Geok Yian Goh

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What do the images on Hawaii's state seal stand for? How is Hawaii's state government organized? How far is Hawaii from its nearest neighbors? You can find the answers to these questions in Uniquely Hawaii. This book contains all kinds of fun and fascinating facts and features that help make Hawaii a one-of-a-kind place. Inside, you will also find information about Hawaii's unique state symbols. You can learn about Hawaii's active volcanoes and find out about Hawaii's native language. And, you will learn the names of the eight major islands that make up Hawaii.

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Heinemann-Raintree Library

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1403446458

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Ancient Southeast Asia

By: John Norman Miksic,Goh Geok Yian

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Ancient Southeast Asia

By: John Norman Miksic,Goh Geok Yian

Ancient Southeast Asia provides readers with a much needed synthesis of the latest discoveries and research in the archaeology of the region, presenting the evolution of complex societies in Southeast Asia from the protohistoric period, beginning around 500BC, to the arrival of British and Dutch colonists in 1600. Well-illustrated throughout, this comprehensive account explores the factors which established Southeast Asia as an area of unique cultural fusion. Miksic and Goh explore how the local population exploited the abundant resources available, developing maritime transport routes which resulted in economic and cultural wealth, including some of the most elaborate art styles and monumental complexes ever constructed. The book’s broad geographical and temporal coverage, including a chapter on the natural environment, provides readers with the context needed to understand this staggeringly diverse region. It utilizes French, Dutch, Chinese, Malay-Indonesian and Burmese sources and synthesizes interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives and data from archaeology, history and art history. Offering key opportunities for comparative research with other centres of early socio-economic complexity, Ancient Southeast Asia establishes the area’s importance in world history.

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Routledge

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1317279034

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The Wheel-Turner and His House

Kingship in a Buddhist Ecumene

By: Geok Goh

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The Wheel-Turner and His House

Kingship in a Buddhist Ecumene

By: Geok Goh

The recorded history of precolonial Burmese empire and the modern state of Myanmar starts with the kingdom of Bagan in the eleventh century. The oldest surviving written records and structures are from the reign of King Anawrahta (1044–1077). Anawrahta converted to Theravada Buddhism and created a vibrant Buddhist state in the Irrawaddy River basin. Anawrahta is a folk hero to this day in Myanmar and is widely credited as a charismatic and pious leader who consolidated various ethnic groups throughout the region into a single nation. The Wheel-Turner and His House traces the archaeological and historical record of Anawrahta and his seminal position in forming modern Myanmar, based on the few sources that have been recovered. The Great Chronicle, an important history of the country written by the 18th-century Burmese nobleman U Kala, forms the basis for much of the knowledge we have about Anawrahta today. Geok Yian Goh examines U Kala's work in light of the context of U Kala's own time and points out the bias of his royal court, as well as the scribe's personal views from the elaborate narratives he produced. She looks at other sources as well, including unpublished palm-leaf manuscripts, to disentangle earlier knowledge about Anawrahta and eleventh-century Bagan. Placing the overall study of Burmese historical tradition within the larger manuscript culture of Asia, Goh presents a critique of theoretical issues in history, especially the relationship between the past and memory. In order to analyze the expansion of Anawrahta's historical image that formed the development of a Buddhist ecumene in the eleventh and twelth centuries, Goh utilizes published and unpublished texts in Burmese and classical Chinese, along with northern Thai and Sri Lankan texts, many of which Goh makes available for the first time in English.

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Northern Illinois University Press

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1501757997

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Ancient Southeast Asia

By: John Norman Miksic,Goh Geok Yian

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The Wheel-Turner and His House

Kingship in a Buddhist Ecumene

By: Geok Goh

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Book's by Geok Yian Goh

Uniquely Hawaii

Uniquely Hawaii

Ancient Southeast Asia

Ancient Southeast Asia

The Wheel-Turner and His House

The Wheel-Turner and His House

Ancient Southeast Asia

Ancient Southeast Asia

The Wheel-Turner and His House

The Wheel-Turner and His House

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