A Heritage of Ruins - Chapman, William R
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The ancient ruins of Southeast Asia have long sparked curiosity and romance in the world's imagination. They appear in accounts of nineteenth-century French explorers, as props for Indiana Jones' adventures, and more recently as the scene of Lara Croft's fantastical battle with the forces of evil. Now William Chapman's expansive new study explores the varied roles these monumental remains have played in the histories of Southeast Asia's modern nations.

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The ancient ruins of Southeast Asia have long sparked curiosity and romance in the world's imagination. They appear in accounts of nineteenth-century French explorers, as props for Indiana Jones' adventures, and more recently as the scene of Lara Croft's fantastical battle with the forces of evil. Now William Chapman's expansive new study explores the varied roles these monumental remains have played in the histories of Southeast Asia's modern nations.
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Autorenporträt
William Chapman is director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and professor and chair in the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Educated at Columbia and Oxford (M.S. and D.Phil), he specializes in architectural recording, the history of historic preservation, and materials conservation. Widely published in scholarly journals, he has also written on subjects ranging from the historic Volcano House Hotel in Hawai'i to the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Married and the father of two daughters and two stepchildren, he lives in Honolulu and in Bangkok.