Scope and content
Correspondence, Cornell lectures and course materials, articles and speeches, files about meetings, book draft, annotated copies of books on the Vietnam War.
Dates
- 1945 - 2000
Creator
- Kahin, George McTurnan. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Access Restrictions:
Access restricted to the permission of donor until 2026.
Conditions Governing Access
Boxes 80-93 are closed until processed.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor of International Studies. George McTurnan Kahin graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and completed graduate work at Stanford University and Johns Hopkins University. He served in the Army during World War II, and lived in Indonesia from 1948-1949, during the peak of Indonesia's war for independence. He came to Cornell in 1951 as an assistant professor of government and executive director of the newly formed Southeast Asia Program. He served as director of the program until 1970, and also founded the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project in 1954, and directed it until his retirement in 1988.
Extent
93.1 cubic feet. (93.1 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, Cornell lectures and course materials, articles and speeches, files about meetings, and book draft.
SERIES LIST
- Series I. Book Manuscript
- Box 1
- Series II. Subject Files
- Boxes 1-2, 76, 78
- Series III. Correspondence
- Boxes 2-10, 16-21, 37-44, 76
- Series IV. Teaching and Research Materials
- Boxes 10-13
- Series V. Speeches and Meetings
- Boxes 13-15, 78
- Series VI. Lectures
- Boxes 56-57
- Series VII. Administration
- Boxes 45-48
- Series VIII. Indonesia and Research Materials
- Boxes 49-55, 58, 70, 76-79
- Series IX. Asia Foundations
- Boxes 59-60
- Series X. Philippines
- Boxes 61-64
- Series XI. Publications: Southeast Asia
- Boxes 65-66
- Series XII. Cambodia (Laos & Thailand)
- Boxes 67-69
- Series XIII. Vietnam
- Boxes 73-74
- Series XIV. Burma
- Boxes 74
- Series XV. Malaysia, Singapore & Indonesia
- Boxes 74-75
- Series XVI. Presidential Libraries Series
- Boxes 71-72
Physical Description
Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, documents.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Sarah Keating, Anne Eller, RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- August 2001, August 2007
- EAD encoding:
- Peter M. Martinez, September 2001 Anne Eller, Evan Fay Earle, August 2007
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, September 2018
- Cornell University -- : Faculty.
- Cornell University. Department of Government
- Cornell University. Modern Indonesia Project
- Cornell University. Southeast Asia Program
- Indonesia -- Foreign relations -- United States.
- Indonesia -- Study and teaching.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Indonesia.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam.
- Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States.
- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Sarah Keating, Anne Eller, RMC Staff
- Date
- September 2001, August 2007
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu