Includes bibliographical references and index.

Timeline -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to the Angkorian world / Mitch Hendrickson, Miriam T. Stark, Damian Evans with Roland Fletcher -- An environmental history of Angkor: beginning to end / Dan Penny &Tegan Hall -- Texts and objects: exploiting the literary sources in Mediaeval Cambodia / Dominique Soutif & Julia Estève -- 'Invisible Cambodians': knowledge production in the history Of Angkorian archaeology / Heng Piphal, Seng Sonetra & Nhim Sotheavin -- The Mekong Delta and the Angkorian world before Angkor / Miriam T. Stark & Pierre-Yves Manguin -- The early Angkor capitals / Jean-Baptiste Chevance and Christophe Pottier -- Angkor's multiple Southeast Asia overland connections / Kenneth. R. Hall -- Angkor and China: 9th-15th centuries / Miriam T. Stark & Aedeen Cremin -- Forests, palms and paddy fields: the plant ecology of Angkor / Tegan Hall & Dan Penny -- Angkor and the Mekong River: settlement, resources, mobility and power / Heng Piphal -- Trajectories of urbanism in the Angkorian world / Damian Evans, Roland Fletcher, Sarah Klassen, Christophe Pottier & Pelle Wijker -- Angkor's temple communities and the logic of its urban landscape / Scott Hawken & Sarah Klassen -- Angkor as a "Cité hydraulique"? / Terry Lustig, Jean-Baptiste Chevance & Wayne Johnson -- Angkorian law and land / Tess E. Davis & Eileen Lustig -- Warfare and defensive architecture in the Angkorian world / David Brotherson -- Āśramas, shrines and royal power / Chea Socheat, Julia Estève, Dominique Soutif & Edward Swenson -- Education and medicine at Angkor / Rethy Chhem, Damian Evans, Chhom Kunthea , Phlong Pisith & Peter D. Sharrock -- Angkor's economy: implications of the transfer of wealth / Eileen Lustig, Aedeen Cremin & Terry Lustig -- The temple economy of Angkor / Heng Piphal & Sachchidanand Sahai -- Angkor's agrarian economy: a socio-ecological mosaic / Scott Hawken & Cristina Cobo Castillo -- From quarries to temples: stone procurement, materiality and spirituality in the Angkorian World / Christian Fischer, Federico Carò & Martin Polkinghorne -- Crafting with fire: stoneware and iron pyrotechnologies in the Angkorian world / Mitch Hendrickson, Ea Darith, Chhay Rachna, Tabata Yukitsugu, Phon Kaseka, Stéphanie Leroy, Yuni Sato & Armand Desbat -- Food, craft and ritual: plants from the Angkorian world / Cristina Cobo Castillo -- Gods and temples: the nature(s) of Angkorian religion /Julia Estève -- Bodies of glory: the statuary of Angkor / Paul A. Lavy & Martin Polkinghorne -- 'Of cattle and kings': bovines in the Angkorian world / Mitch Hendrickson, Eileen Lustig & Siyonn Sophearith -- An Angkor nation? identifying the core of the Khmer Empire / Ian Lowman, Chhom Kunthea & Mitch Hendrickson -- The Angkorian house / Alison Carter, Miriam T. Stark, Heng Piphal & Chhay Rachna -- Vogue at Angkor: Dress, Décor and Narrative Drama / Gillian Green -- Gender, status and hierarchy in the age of Angkor / Trude Jacobsen Gidaszewski -- Perspectives on the 'collapse' of Angkor and the Khmer Empire / Damian Evans, Martin Polkinghorne, Roland Fletcher, David Brotherson, Tegan Hall, Sarah Klassen & Pelle Wijker -- Uthong and Angkor: material legacies in the Chao Phraya Basin, Thailand / Pipad Krajaejun -- Mainland Southeast Asia after Angkor: on the legacies of Jayavarman VII / Ashley Thompson -- Early modern Cambodia and archaeology at Longvek / Martin Polkinghorne & Yuni Sato -- Yama, the god closest to the Khmers / Ang Choulean -- Inarguably Angkor / Penny Edwards -- Index.

"The Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asia's largest ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE. Chapters by leading scholars combine evidence from archaeology, texts, and the natural sciences to introduce the Angkorian state, describe its structure, and explain its persistence over more than six centuries. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying premodern Asia. The volume's first of six sections provide historical and environmental contexts, discusses data sources, and the nature of knowledge production. The next three sections examine the anthropogenic landscapes of Angkor (agrarian, urban, and hydraulic), the state institutions that shaped the Angkorian state, and the economic foundations on which Angkor operated. Part V explores Angkorian ideologies and realities, from religion and nation to identity. The volume's last part reviews political and aesthetic Angkorian legacies in an effort to explain why the idea of Angkor remains central to its Cambodian descendants. Maps, graphics and photographs guide readers through the content of each chapter. Chapters in this volume synthesize more than a century of work at Angkor and in the regions it influenced. The Angkorian World will satisfy students, researchers, academics, and the knowledgeable layperson who seeks to understand how this great Angkorian Empire arose and functioned in the premodern world"-- Provided by publisher.

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