The art and architecture of Thailand : from prehistoric times through the thirteenth century / / by Hiram Woodward.

• Superior document: Handbook of oriental studies. Section 3, South-East Asia, v. 14 = Handbuch der Orientalistik
• Author: Woodward, Hiram W.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Südostasien ; 14. Bd.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (394 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Written sources on Thai history are scarce. It took Hiram Woodward many years of painstaking archaeological and art-historical research to finally piece together this first ever comprehensive survey work on the art and architecture of Thailand from the earliest times until the establishment of the Thai-speaking kingdoms. The book, organized geographically and chronologically, covers four eras: the prehistoric period; the period characterized by the culture of the kingdom of Dvaravati; the centuries of Khmer dominance; and, as classical Khmer civilization waned, the period of the struggle for identity. A systematic and elucidating history of pre-fourteenth-century Thailand in a volume indispensable to historians of art, religion, politics, and society.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- The Geographic, Prehistoric, and Ethnographic Setting -- The First Millennium A. D. -- The Cambodian Expansion -- Creating a New Order -- Inscriptions Cited -- Bibliography -- Index.