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      For sites and databases relevant to Southeast Asian environmental history

       

      Southeast Asian ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY

      With the support of colleagues, I am compiling a bibliography of recent environmental history books and articles that are geographically focused on Southeast Asia, as a reference for those interested in the subject. While "environmental history" is a contested category, at present, the bibliography focuses on work that centres on the non-human as a key structuring influence or agent and concerns change over time. Suggestions for the building up the list is very much welcome.

       

      You can view the bibliography by clicking on the links below:

      SEA ENV HIST BIBLIO ARRANGED BY TOPIC

      SEA ENV HIST BIBLIO ARRANGED BY AUTHOR

    • Southeast Asia News

      NEW MANDALA

      MEKONG REVIEW

      INSIDE INDONESIA

      KyoTO REVIEW of SOUTHEAST ASIA

    • Digital Archives and Databases

      Digitized Collections

      NAISSE Prophetic Food Knowledge Repository - searchable database of recipes for mitigating illness using prophetic foods with Malay manuscripts as sources, among others.

       

      British Library Digitized Manuscripts - with Southeast Asian material often covered in the Asian and African studies blog (see here). Great for reading Jawi manuscripts online.

       

      Cornell University Library Southeast Asia Collections - includes some digitised collections of materials from US Southeast Asian professors at Cornell and also useful as a portal for other Southeast Asia online databases

       

      Delpher - Digitized Dutch books, newspapers and journals including those covering 19th century Dutch East Indies

       

      Digital Islamic Humanities Project - at Brown University

       

      Leiden University Digital Collections - marvelous range of materials including KITLV's historical photographs and early Sino-Malay literature, especially for the Dutch East Indies

       

      Malay Concordance Project - Digitized Malay manuscripts, including a word search function

       

      National Library of Singapore BookSG - for Singapore and Southeast Asian digitised books, including early surveys of the region and Malay manuscripts from the British Library, and Berlin Library. For early Singapore and Malaya newspapers, check out NewspaperSG

       

      National Library of Indonesia (Perpusnas) - e-resources available to members only

       

      General digital libraries - HathiTrust Digital Library and the Internet Archive has a lot of useful digitised texts for those working on Southeast Asia's colonial history

       

      Indonesian Economic History - contains datafiles on Indonesia's economic development from 1800 to 2000 but what I find most useful is the list of links to statistical agencies

       

      Climate DataBases and Proxy Records

       

      A Blog for Historical Climatology

      Ways to do climate history, how climate change affects social structures, and more..

       

      ACRE (Atmospheric Circulation and Reconstructions Over the Earth) -

      Data sets on historical recovery on meteorological data and marine global weather observations

       

      National Center for Environmental Information -

      Data Sets for Ice core records, pollen, historical fires and more

       

      Dendrochronology - There is an old world drought atlas, based on data from tree rings.

       

      Past Global Changes - including a global charcoal database (trace evidence of forest clearings through fire, among others), an open access magazine focusing on historical land use and a list of people to contact if you need paleoclimate data

       

      Palynology - pollen analysis helps in the reconstruction of past vegetation cover. Unfortunately, there has not been much sampling done in Southeast Asia, specifically, the best bibliography for the outcome of such research that I can find is here.

       

       

      Mapping Projects and Digital Tools

      Dataquest - Free place to learn basics of Python and R!

       

      Dutch Royal Tropical Institute Digital Map Collection - especially useful for colonial-era maps

       

      KITLV map collection - still under construction and mostly 19th to 20th century Dutch East and West Indies, the Dutch Antilles and parts of Southeast Asia

       

      Open Source Software:

      Download QGIS for mapping (I personally like this online video tutorial here, to start)

      and GEPHI for network analysis

       

      Stanford Digital Humanities Project, including a great one on mapping vice in early 20th century Philippines for Southeast Asianist

       

      Do some environmental good through online mapping here!

       

    • Environmental Sites

      YALE Environment 360

      BBC SCIENCE

      ONEARTH

      Environmental Health NEWs

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