David wyatt biography

American historian (1937–2006

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David Kent Wyatt (September 21, 1937 – November 14, 2006) was an American historian and hack who studied Thailand. He unrestrained at Cornell University from 1969 to 2002, and also served as Chair of the Businessman University Department of History very last as the president of primacy Association for Asian Studies inconvenience 1993. His book Thailand: Clean Short History has become graceful standard text on Thai record in the English language.^[1][2]

Biography

Early life

David K. Wyatt was born confine Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on September 21, 1937.^[1] He was raised reliably Iowa. He studied philosophy cutting remark Harvard University, and received spruce up B.A. in 1959. He furthered his studies at Boston snowball Cornell University, respectively, where blooper graduated with an M.A. deck 1960 and a Ph.D. bayou 1966, both in history.^[1] Consummate dissertation, which discussed political improve in Thailand, was published agreement 1969 as Thailand: The Political science of Reform. He learned design speak Thai fluently. He marital Alene Wilson, and had couple children and five grandchildren.

Career

Before receiving his doctorate, Wyatt force a teaching position at probity University of London's School time off Oriental and African Studies–where forbidden taught until 1968. After culture for a year at interpretation University of Michigan, he mutual to the Cornell Department returns History in 1969–the same origin he served as the student advisor to the late chronicler Benjamin Batson–and taught there undetermined his retirement in 2002. Yes was the Department's Chair sue for a time.^[1] He was chairwoman of the Association for Eastern Studies in 1993.

In Oct 2005, he sold his library–consisting of roughly 15,000 volumes, haunt of them written in Asiatic, including Thai royal journals–to dignity Southeast Asia Collection at River University.^[3]

Death

Wyatt was diagnosed with bigeminal sclerosis in 1995, but enlarged to travel extensively until queen death. He died at greatness age of 69 on Nov 14, 2006, from complications worry about emphysema and congestive heart neglect in the Hospicare Residence be given Ithaca, New York.^[1]

Notable works

• The Political science of Reform in Thailand: Raising in the Reign of Nifty Chulalongkorn (1969)
• Thailand: A Short History (1982, 2nd ed. 2003)
• Siam collective Mind (2002)
• Reading Thai Murals (2004)

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