Internet Resources VI: History and Archaeology

Regional

David Rumsey Map Collection

http://www.davidrumsey.com/
Contains a massive collection of first-rate historical maps of various regions and countries around the world, including several of mainland and island Southeast Asia.

National Maritime Museum Collections Online

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/
Includes an outstanding collection of antiquarian maps and maritime charts dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Sponsored by the National Maritime museum in Greenwich, this extensive online collection includes more than 100,000 antiquarian maps and nautical charts of virtually all corners of the world, including Africa, the Middle East, South, East, and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. The National Maritime Museum Collections Online is an invaluable resource.

Reisenett Historical Maps of Asia

http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/historical/history_asia.html
Reisenett Historical Maps of Asia contains historical maps of East, South, and Southeast Asia, including a handful of useful historical maps of 19th century Burma, Rangoon, Batavia (Jakarta), and Manila.

The James Ford Bell Library

http://bell.lib.umn.edu/
Includes a unique range of antiquarian maps, including maps of Asia and island Southeast Asia. The James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota, holds a valuable, albeit rather limited, collection of historical maps of East and Southeast Asia, particularly island Southeast Asia, most dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. Mapmakers include: Ortelius, Speed, Mercator, Sanson, Allard, Homann, Bering, Plancius, and Lodewijcksz.

The Old Siam Trading Company

http://www.oldsiamtrading.com/index.html
The Old Siam Trading Company Online, despite being a commercial site, contains a wide range of invaluable and fully accessible historical maps and prints of Southeast Asian states and cities. Included in the index are city plans and panoramic sketches of Saigon (Vietnam), Lopburi (Siam), and Eauweck (Cambodia).

Antiquarian Maps at Reed College

http://library.reed.edu/collections/antmaps/
The online Reed College collection contains a wealth of antiquarian world maps and prints, many dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries. Included in this collection are historical maps of East and Southeast Asia, especially island Southeast Asia.

Cambodia

Cambodia: Greater Angkor Project

http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=164&Itemid=180
The Greater Angkor Project (GAP), organized by faculty and staff from the University of Sydney, the École Française d'Extrême Orient (EFEO) and APSARA, represents the first systematic, integrated approach to the study of Angkor as an urban complex. Using GIS (Geographical Information System), remotely sensed data, computerised mapping applications, 3D imaging and visualisation, it is the aim of the GAP to compile and integrate data on the territorial extent, spatial organization and duration of Angkor as a living city-state--all of which are essential to enriching our understanding of Cambodian history.

Indonesia (East Indies)

Atlas Mutual Heritage

http://www.nationaalarchief.nl/amh/
Extensive database incorporating historical maps and other images of Dutch VOC and WIC settlements and colonies. Included in this collection are antiquarian maps of Batavia (Old Jakarta) and other historical sites of relevance to the study of the history of island Southeast Asia.

Special Collections of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library

http://lbxml.ust.hk/mp/main.html
Includes a broad range of antiquarian maps of East and Southeast Asia. The Special Collections of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library, a recently developed program, is an excellent resource for online historical maps. East Asia, and China in particular, is especially well represented. Maps of the "East Indies" are also incorporated into the collection. Mapmakers include: Pierre, Dalrymple, Seller, Tordesillas, Linschoten, Blaeu, Ramusio, Fries, Bolton, Goos, Visscher, Keulen, Moll, and Rapkin.

KITLV Collection of Historical Photographs, Drawings and Prints

http://voc-kenniscentrum.nl/
The VOC-Kenniscentrum contains 125,000 Dutch-language documents, antiquarian maps, drawings, brief historical sketches, and bibliographies, most of which pertain to the Indonesian archipelago prior to and during the colonial era. Organized by the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), the VOC-Kenniscentrum incorporates a wealth of historically important information on essentially all facets of the VOC in Southeast Asia. Apart from its collection of antiquarian maps and maritime charts, which is first-rate, the VOC-Kenniscentrum includes an index, accompanied by brief historical sketches, of the various agricultural goods and mineral resources produced (or mined) in Indonesia and other VOC trading centers and settlements for export. All in all, it is an invaluable resource.

Batavia: A Virtual Factorij

http://web.archive.org/web/20040926015450/http://batavia.ugent.be/
Includes a vast array of antiquarian maps, brief historical sketches, and extensive, fully searchable databases on the history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and its involvement in Asia.
Batavia: A Virtual Factorij is an invaluable source of information on the history of the VOC in South and Southeast Asia. It includes a chronology of important events in VOC history, a short historical narrative of the company's dealings in Asia, written in both Dutch and English, and an extensive collection of antiquarian maps and other prints. In addition, it provides links to a number of important source collections of the Netherlands Historical Data Archive, including

• Dutch Asiatic Shipping, 1595-1795, which contains data on outward and homeward-bound voyages between the Netherlands and the East Indies
• the South-Chinese Sea Trade, 1681-1792, which provides facts and figures about the trade between Batavia and China
• Indonesian fortune: VOC bills of exchange between Asia and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1720, which contains an inventory of VOC bills of exchange
• Textile Trade of the VOC in the 18th century
• Demography of Batavia, 1689-1789
• The History of the Banda Islands (Indonesia)
• Shipping and trade in Indonesia, especially the origin, Java, 1774-1777
• Diary of Paulus Gevers of his journey to Batavia and Bantam, 1776-1777

Finally, Batavia: A Virtual Factorij contains useful information on Dutch education, church records, and prisons in the East Indies.

World War II Armed Forces: Orders of Battle and Organizations--The Map Room

http://niehorster.orbat.com/index.htm
The Map Room, part of a larger site, contains a small but important collection of maps of the Netherlands East Indies (now known as Indonesia) during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Included in this collection are maps of 19th and early 20th century Batavia (Jakarta), Surabaya, Semerang, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, and the Moluccas.

Sajarah Indonesia

http://www.gimonca.com/sejarah/sejarah08.shtml
Provides an extensive historical timeline, accompanied by brief descriptive narratives, for key events in Indonesian history from the 1500s to the present day.

Philippines

The United States and its Territories, 1870-1925: The Age of Imperialism

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?
c=philamer;cc=philamer;sid=29c348e31e3a89b7306a2534c6a4612b;
q1=philippines;rgn=full%20text;tpl=home.tpl
Features an extensive collection of monographs and US government documents on the Spanish-American war and the United States' subsequent involvement in the Philippines. Included in this vast collection is the Philippine Photograph Digital Archive, consisting of more than 1,500 photographs of the Philippines during the period 1870-1925.

Philippine Culture and History

http://www.univie.ac.at/Voelkerkunde/apsis/aufi/culhist.htm
Includes scores of full-text scholarly articles, maps and photographs, travel logs and other personal accounts penned by early European visitors to the Philippines.

Singapore

1942: Battlefield Singapore

http://www.s1942.org.sg/s1942/home/
Contains extensive archival records on the history of the Japanese attack and occupation of Singapore during World War II. Created by the National Archives of Singapore, "Battlefield Singapore" features a substantial collection of photographs, maps, military documents, P.O.W. diaries, oral histories, digitally re-mastered clips of wartime films, brief historical narratives, and other archival sources on the history of the Japanese occupation of Singapore.

Thailand (Siam)

Memoires De Siam

http://www.memoires-de-siam.com/
Memoires de Siam features online antiquarian maps and historical documents related to pre-20th century contacts between the Thai and Europeans. The text is in French.

The Origins of Angkor Archaeological Project

http://www.otago.ac.nz/Anthropology/Angkor/index.html
Contains information, including extensive field notes, on ongoing archaeological projects in the Mun River valley in northeastern Thailand. Also includes an annotated bibliography of secondary source materials, mainly Ph.D. dissertations and M.A. theses, relevant to the study of classical Southeast Asia. The Origins of Angkor Archaeological Project is a multi-disciplinary research project being undertaken by the University of Otago, Department of Anthropology, and the Fine Arts Department of Thailand.

Ban Chiang Project

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/
Exp_Rese_Disc/Asia/banchiang/banchiang.shtml
A cooperative undertaking involving the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the Fine Arts Department in Thailand, the Ban Chiang Project, headed by Dr. Joyce White, is engaged in an intensive archaeological study of the important pre-historic settlement in northeastern Thailand known as "Ban Chiang." This site provides information on the fascinating and far-reaching archaeological discoveries at Ban Chiang, as well as updates on ongoing work. Also included are maps and other images of the site.

Vietnam

Communist Propaganda from North Vietnam

http://www.library.wisc.edu/guides/SEAsia/vnimage/vnintro.htm
Contains a wide-range of historical images and brief propaganda tracts relating to the north Vietnamese perspective on the Vietnam war.

Vietnam-Era Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Database

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pow/powhome.html
A searchable database that includes information pertaining to American P.O.W.'s and M.I.A.'s in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war.

The Wars for Vietnam

http://vietnam.vassar.edu/
Created by faculty and students at Vassar College, the Wars for Vietnam provides an excellent overview of the "Vietnam Conflict," original documentation, and other important information related to the study of America's involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s.