Michael Vickery
Michael Theodore Vickery (April 1, 1931 – June 29, 2017) was an American historian, lecturer, and author known for his works about the history of Southeast Asia. Vickery's research and writings have concentrated on ancient and modern history of Cambodia and Thailand with publications ranging from early history to contextual studies and interpretations of recent and contemporary Cambodia - being one of only a handful scholars, who comprehensively examined regional events during the 1980s. Vickery essentially contributed to and helped to extend the scholarly debate of the Pre-Angkorian kingdoms, the classic age and the Post-Angkor Period, introducing and integrating the works of the Cambodian scholars Khin Sok and Mak Phoen by utilizing their alternative view-points. In 1984, he published his "carefully researched"book "Cambodia 1975–1982" that covers the years of the Pol Pot era and its immediate aftermath. The work has since become a standard reference text on the Khmer Rouge Canon and Cambodia's Civil War decades before and after. Vickery, who as a member of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars is often labelled a "Marxist" historian by some scholars, is considered to be and regularly cited as a "Cambodia expert" and one of the "leading historians" on Cambodian history.
8 Books Written
Cambodia 1975-1982 presents a unique and carefully researched analysis of the Democratic Kampuchea regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (1975-79) and the early years of the People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979-89). When it was first published in 1984, the book provided one of the few balanced and reasoned voices in a world shocked by media reports of incredible brutality. Now, 15 years later, the book remains unsurpassed as an original historical document bringing a new interpretation based on the earliest primary sources - interviews with the Khmer people themselves.
Society, economics, and politics in pre-Angkor Cambodia: The 7th-8th centuries
by Michael Vickery
Rating: 4.5 ⭐
The volume presents a study of those topics based on a close reading and analysis of the contemporary Khmer-language inscriptions of the 7th-8th centuries. It thus breaks with the Sanskrit and Indological tradition which has dominated work on early Cambodia, giving prominence to royal genealogies and religion. In addition to making available the neglected information in the Khmer corpus, the author tries to present early historical Cambodia in a form which is comparable with what is known of early societies and states in other parts of the world, and in a way which may be of interest to social scientists as well as Orientalist historians. New explanations are also proposed for some of the problems which have long troubled students of early Cambodia - the transition from Funan to Chenla, the formation of the first royalty and first states, the nature of Cambodian ''slavery,'' the puzzle of the poorly documented 8th century, which is presented here as a period of consolidation rather than disintegration, and the political-demographic shift from South to North which resulted in the founding of Angkor.
Michael Vickery's work on Kampuchea includes several books and writings that analyze the history and politics of Cambodia and Kampuchea This book analyzes the past and present of Kampuchea, a small country with a peasant economy. It also suggests lessons that other developing countries could learn from Kampuchea
Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome in Cambodia: Collected Writings 1975-2010
by Michael Vickery
Rating: 3.0 ⭐
Noah's Ark #4774
by Michael Vickery
color coded graphs for cross stitching Noah, an ark and numerous animals on dry land under a rainbow, Noah and a few animals are included as separate figures, general directions for making the needed stitches are included, finished project is illustrated in color on the cover
Cambodia 1975-1982
by Michael Vickery