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G.E. Harvey

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G.E. Harvey
Born
Godfrey Eric Harvey

1889 (1889)
Died1965 (1966) (aged 76)
OccupationHistorian
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineSoutheast Asian History
Sub-disciplineBurmese history

G.E. Harvey (1889 - 1965) was a British diplomat, historian and professor, specializing in Burmese history.[1] Harvey obtained a bachelor of literature degree from University of Oxford in 1922.[1] His undergraduate thesis was published by Longman's in 1925.[1] He is best known for his seminal books on Burmese history, including History of Burma, which was published in 1925 and known for its Burmese chronicle perspective.[2]

Harvey became a lecturer in Burmese history and law at the University of Oxford from 1936 to 1942.[1] He was president of the Oxford University Anthropological Society in the 1940s.[3] After World War II, he retired in Oxford, and died in 1965.[1]

Publications

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Htin Aung (October 1975). "THREE UNPUBLISHED PAPERS BY HARVEY INTRODUCED, EXPLAINED AND COMMENTED UPON by MAUNG HTIN AUNG" (PDF). Journal of the Burma Research Society. LVIII.
  2. ^ Tarling, Nicholas (1999). The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-66370-0.
  3. ^ Woolf, Daniel R.; Macintyre, Stuart; Feldherr, Andrew; Hardy, Grant; Maiguashca, Juan; Hesketh, Ian; Pók, Attila (2011). The Oxford History of Historical Writing: 1800-1945. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-953309-1.