Prince Charoon et al: South East Asia: The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 & their Aftermath

by Andrew Dalby

Andrew Dalby's study—of Siam, Vietnam, Burma, Indonesia, and the Philippines—links the burgeoning Southeast Asian nationalist movements to world events at the time of the Paris Peace Conference, discovering the people—and patterns of thought—that began to redefine these nations after World War I.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2011

About the author

Andrew Dalby (born Liverpool, 1947) is an English linguist, translator and historian who most often writes about food history.

Dalby studied at the Bristol Grammar School, where he learned some Latin, French and Greek; then at the University of Cambridge. There he studied Latin and Greek at first, afterwards Romance languages and linguistics. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1970. Dalby then worked for fifteen years at Cambridge University Library, eventually specializing in Southern Asia. He gained familiarity with some other languages because of his work there, where he had to work with foreign serials and afterwards with South and Southeast Asian materials. In 1982 and 1983 he collaborated with Sao Saimong in cataloguing the Scott Collection of manuscripts and documents from Burma (especially the Shan States) and Indochina; He was later to publish a short biography of the colonial civil servant and explorer J. G. Scott, who formed the collection.[1] To help him with this task, he took classes in Cambridge again in Sanskrit, Hindi and Pali and in London in Burmese and Thai.