Description of the Thai Kingdom Or Siam
Author | : Jean-Baptiste Pallegoix |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Missions |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jean-Baptiste Pallegoix |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Missions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : François Henri Turpin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Thailand |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thongchai Winichakul |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824841298 |
This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped challenges much that has been written on Thai history because it demonstrates convincingly that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic.
Author | : Chris Baker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2017-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107190762 |
The first full history of a great commercial and political center that rose in Asia over almost five centuries.
Author | : Nicolas Gervaise |
Publisher | : White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand) |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Judith A. Stowe |
Publisher | : C. Hurst & Co. Publishers |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Since the end of the absolute monarchy in Siam in 1932, the country has seemed to lurch from one military coup to another despite the democratic ideals proclaimed by the men who established the first constitutional government. Just how the military came to play such a dominant role in Thai politics is the main theme of this book. But it also looks at the nebulous period during World war II when Thailand fought a little-known war against the French in Indo-China and then aligned itself with Japan, declaring war on Britain and the United States.
Author | : Maurizio Peleggi |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781861893147 |
Tourist brochures and travel guides depict Thailand as an exotic country with a rich cultural heritage, strong religious traditions, and a popular monarchy. Historians also contribute to Thailand’s international allure with chronicles of its unique historical and cultural continuity in comparison to the other southeast Asian countries, whose histories are stained by colonialism and nationalist struggles for independence. Thailand challenges these stereotypes with a reinterpretation as well as an introduction to the emergence of Thailand as a nation-state. The book argues that the development of Thai nationhood was a long-term process shaped by interactions with the outside world, its pursuit of civilization, and, more recently, globalization. Maurizio Peleggi’s original account investigates, among other issues, the evolution of the geographical and linguistic landscapes, changes in class and gender relations, the role of institutions and ideologies, modern cultural expressions, social memory, and the conception of the Thai national self as contrasted against the racial and cultural Others of Burmese, Chinese and Westerners. Thailandis a concise and compelling introduction to the complexities that lie behind Thailand’s exotic facade.