Milton Osborne

Milton Osborne is an Australian historian, author, and consultant specializing in Southeast Asia.

He attended North Sydney Boys High School, graduated from the University of Sydney and received a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Osborne held academic positions in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Singapore. Osborne's main historical contribution has been to synthesise the history of the region as a whole, rather than concentrate on the histories of the present-day nations.

His Southeast Asia association began in 1959 with an Australian diplomatic posting to Phnom Penh. In 1980 and 1981 Osborne advised the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the Cambodian refugee problem. In 1982 he returned to Australia, working as Head of the Asia Branch of the Office of National Assessments, also serving for a year as Head of Current Intelligence.

Osborne now lives in Sydney and continues to write while consulting on Asian issues.

Books

• Singapore and Malaysia (1964)
• Strategic Hamlets in South Viet-Nam: A Survey and a Comparison (1965)
• The French Presence in Cochinchina and Cambodia: Rule and Response (1859-1905) (1969, reprinted 1997)
• Region of Revolt: Focus on Southeast Asia (1970)
• Politics and Power in Cambodia: The Sihanouk Years (Longman, 1973)
• River Road to China: The Mekong River Expedition, 1866-1873 (London and New York, 1975)
• Southeast Asia: An Introductory History (eight editions, 1979 to 2000)
• Before Kampuchea: Preludes to Tragedy (1979)
• Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness (1994)
• River Road to China: The Search for the Source of the Mekong, 1866-73 (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999) ISBN 0-87113-752-6
• The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future, Allen & Unwin, Sydney (2000), ISBN 1-86508-219-8

Articles

• "Francis Garnier (1839-1873), Explorer of the Mekong River", Explorers of South-east Asia, Six Lives, ed. Victor T. King, (Kuala Lumpur: OUP, 1995)
• River at risk: the Mekong and the water politics of China and Southeast Asia

External links

• May 2000 interview with Milton Osborne
• The Mekong River (August 2000 interview given to the ABC)

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