A History Of Siam
Download A History Of Siam full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free A History Of Siam ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : Christopher John Baker |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2014-05-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107420210 |
A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. This book explores how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree peasants was transformed and examines how the monarchy managed the foundation of a new nation-state at the turn of the twentieth century. The authors capture the clashes between various groups in their attempts to take control of the nation-state in the twentieth century. They track Thailand's economic changes through an economic boom, globalisation and the evolution of mass society. This edition sheds light on Thailand's recent political, social and economic developments, covering the coup of 2006, the violent street politics of May 2010, and the landmark election of 2011 and its aftermath. It shows how in Thailand today, the monarchy, the military, business and new mass movements are players in a complex conflict over the nature and future of the country's democracy.
| 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 | : William A. R. Wood |
| Publisher | : Simon Publications |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781931541107 |
Written by a British consul living in Thailand, this is the first book in a western language on the country's history, based, almost entirely, on ancient Thai documentation. It covers the subject from the earliest history until the democratic reforms of the early 1930s.
| 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 | : Richard A. Ruth |
| Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2022-02-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1462922287 |
Thailand is known for its picturesque beaches and famous temples, but there's much more to this popular holiday destination than many realize. A Brief History of Thailand offers an engaging look at the country's last 250 years--from coups and violent massacres to the invention of Pad Thai in the 1930's. Readers will learn the vibrant story of Thailand's emergence as a prosperous Buddhist state, its transformation from traditional kingdom to democratic constitutional monarchy and its subsequent rise to prominence in Southeast Asian affairs. Thailand's dramatic history spans centuries of conflict, and this book recounts many of these fascinating episodes, including: The true story of Anna Leonowens, the British governess hired to teach the children of King Mongkut, fictionalized in Margaret Landon's bestselling novel Anna and the King of Siam and turned into a hit Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and film, The King and I The bloodless Siamese Revolution of 1932 that established overnight the first constitutional monarchy in Asia, ending almost eight centuries of absolute rule and creating a democratic system of parliamentary government The Japanese invasion of Thailand and construction of the "Bridge Over the River Kwai" made famous by the novel and Oscar-winning film The mysterious death of King Ananda Mahidol, murdered in his bed in 1946, and a source of controversy ever since The development of Thailand as an international playground during the Vietnam War, when American military used it as rowdy destination for servicemen on furlough The 70-year reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-serving monarch, who was born in the U.S., educated in Switzerland, loved to play the saxophone and was idolized by his people With this book, historian and professor Richard A. Ruth has skillfully crafted an accessible cultural and political history of an understudied nation. Covering events through the King's death in 2016, A Brief History of Thailand will be of interest to students, travelers and anyone hoping to learn more about this part of the world.
| Author | : F. Turpin |
| Publisher | : Applewood Books |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2009-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1429040165 |
| Author | : Stefan Hell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Thailand |
| ISBN | : 9786167339924 |
| Author | : Tamara Loos |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2018-07-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501728253 |
Unlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) shared a great deal in common with both colonized states and imperial powers: its sovereignty was qualified by imperial nations while domestically its leaders pursued European colonial strategies of juridical control in the Muslim south. The creation of family law and courts in that region and in Siam proper most clearly manifests Siam's dualistic position. Demonstrating the centrality of gender relations, law, and Siam's Malay Muslims to the history of modern Thailand, Subject Siam examines the structures and social history of jurisprudence to gain insight into Siam's unique position within Southeast Asian history. Tamara Loos elaborates on the processes of modernity through an in-depth study of hundreds of court cases involving polygyny, marriage, divorce, rape, and inheritance adjudicated between the 1850s and 1930s. Most important, this study of Siam offers a novel approach to the question of modernity precisely because Siam was not colonized yet was subject to transnational discourses and symbols of modernity. In Siam, Loos finds, the language of modernity was not associated with a foreign, colonial overlord, so it could be deployed both by elites who favored continuation of existing domestic hierarchies and by those advocating political and social change.
| Author | : Patrick Jory |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2021-01-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108491243 |
An innovative new social history of Thailand told through the lens of changing ideals of manners, civility and behaviour.
| Author | : Rachel V. Harrison |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2018-05-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501719211 |
The Ambiguous Allure of the West examines the impact of Western imperialism on Thai cultural development from the 1850s to the present and highlights the value of postcolonial analysis for studying the ambiguities, inventions, and accommodations with the West that continue to enrich Thai culture. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Thais have adopted and adapted aspects of Western culture and practice in an ongoing relationship that may be characterized as semicolonial. As they have done so, the notions of what constitutes "Thainess" have been inflected by Western influence in complex and ambiguous ways, producing nuanced, hybridized Thai identities.The Ambiguous Allure of the West brings together Thai and Western scholars of history, anthropology, film, and literary and cultural studies to analyze how the protean Thai self has been shaped by the traces of the colonial Western Other. Thus, the book draws the study of Siam/Thailand into the critical field of postcolonial theory, expanding the potential of Thai Studies to contribute to wider debates in the region and in the disciplines of cultural studies and critical theory. The chapters in this book present the first sustained dialogue between Thai cultural studies and postcolonial analysis.By clarifying the distinctive position of semicolonial societies such as Thailand in the Western-dominated world order, this book bridges and integrates studies of former colonies with studies of the Asian societies that retained their political independence while being economically and culturally subordinated to Euro-American power.
