John Villiers

John Villiers (* 1936 ) is a British historian and contributor to the British Council .

John Villiers studied history at Cambridge University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1957 . Between 1958 and 1960 research activities in Cambridge and at the University of Lisbon followed. From 1960 to 1963 Villiers was an employee of the British Council in Bandung and English lecturer at Padjadjaran State University . In 1963 Villiers received his doctorate in Cambridge with a thesis on Portuguese social history. He then worked at the British Council in Warsaw .

John Villiers wrote studies on the Portuguese in the Far East as well as on Indian art, language and culture. He currently lives in London.

Fonts

• Fischer-Weltgeschichte Vol. 18: Southeast Asia before the colonial era (ed.), Fischer, Frankfurt 1965 ISBN 3-436-01210-6
• The Southeast Asian Port and Polity. Rise and Demise , Singapore University Press, Singapore 1990 ISBN 9971-69-129-9
• The British in Java 1811-1816. A Javanese account. A Text Edition, English Synopsis and Commentary on British Library Additional Manuscript 12330 (Babad Bedhah ing Ngayogyakarta) (with Peter Carey), Oxford University Press, Oxford 1992 ISBN 0-19-726062-4
• Blue Guide Thailand New Edition , WW Norton, 1997 ISBN 0-393-31583-5
• Portuguese Encounters with the World in the Age of Discoveries: Southeast Asia , Ashgate Publishing Group, 2005 ISBN 0-7546-0189-7

Web links

• Literature by and about John Villiers in the catalog of the German National Library