Milton Osborne
Milton Osborne is an
Australian historian,
author, and
consultant specializing in
Southeast Asia.
He graduated from the University of Sydney and received a Ph.D from Cornell University.
His Southeast Asia association began in 1959 with an Australian Foreign Service posting to Phnom Penh.
Books
- 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 (eight editions, 1979 to 2000)
- 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) ISBN 0871137526
- The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000)
Articles
- "Francis Garnier (1839-1873), Explorer of the Mekong River", Explorers of South-east Asia, Six Lives, ed. Victor T. King, (Kuala Lumpur: OUP, 1995)
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