A CRITIQUE of HISTORIOGRAPHY as an APOLOGY for BRITISH EMPIRE BUILDING IN BURMA - ONE SOUTHEAST ASIA SCHOLAR CONDEMNS ANOTHER over HIS WORKS on BURMA / MYANMAR
PEACOCKS, PAGODAS AND PROFESSOR HALL : A CRITIQUE of the PERSISTING USE of HISTORIOGRAPHY as an APOLOGY for BRITISH EMPIRE BUILDING IN BURMA. By Manuel Sarkisyanz,
ONE SOUTHEAST ASIA SCHOLAR, Manuel Sarkisyanz, CONDEMNS ANOTHER, D. G. E. Hall, for his WORKS on MYANMAR (BURMA).
ATHENS, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, Southeast Asia Program, 1972.
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In this corner you have Professor MANUEL SARKISYANZ. In that corner you have Professor D. G. E. HALL.
About MANUEL SARKISYANZ (from Wikipedia):
******Emanuel "Manuel" Sarkisyanz, b.1923 d.2015, was a political scientist, historian, and Southeast Asian studies scholar. He held a professorship at the University of Heidelberg.
Sarkisyanz, born in Azerbaijan, grew up as an ethnic Armenian in Iran. He studied at the University of Tehran, the Asia Institute in New York, and the University of Chicago. In 1952 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
In 1967 he became full professor of political science at the South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg. He was a member of the American Historical Association, the German Oriental Society, and the Association for Academic Freedom, and from 1959 a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation.******
About PROFESSOR D. G. E. HALL (from Wikipedia):
******Daniel George Edward Hall (known as D. G. E. Hall), b.1891 d.1979, was a British historian, writer, and academic. He wrote extensively on the history of Burma. His most notable work is A History of Southeast Asia, said to "...remain the most important single history of the region, providing encyclopedic coverage of material published up to the time of its 1981 revision." He held professorships in Southeast Asian history at both Cornell University and the University of London - where he eventually became professor emeritus.******