Siam and World War I
Author | : Stefan Hell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Thailand |
ISBN | : 9786167339924 |
In English.
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Author | : Stefan Hell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Thailand |
ISBN | : 9786167339924 |
In English.
Author | : Kleuap Kaysorn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2020-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781916356306 |
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 | : 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 | : Heather Streets-Salter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108155952 |
Although not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact altered by the war in multiple and profound ways. Ranging across British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and French Indochina, Heather Streets-Salter reveals how the war shaped the region's political, economic, and social development both during 1914–18 and in the war's aftermath. She shows how the region's strategic location between North America and India made it a convenient way-station for expatriate Indian revolutionaries who hoped to smuggle arms and people into India and thus to overthrow British rule, whilst German consuls and agents entered into partnerships with both Indian and Vietnamese revolutionaries to undermine Allied authority and coordinate anti-British and anti-French operations. World War One in Southeast Asia offers an entirely new perspective on anti-colonialism and the Great War, and radically extends our understanding of the conflict as a truly global phenomenon.
Author | : Wasana Wongsurawat |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2019-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295746262 |
Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand—or Siam, as it was formerly known—has succeeded in transforming itself into a rival modern nation-state over the last two centuries. Recent historiography has placed progress—or lack thereof—toward Western-style liberal democracy at the center of Thailand’s narrative, but that view underestimates the importance of the colonial context. In particular, a long-standing relationship with China and the existence of a large and important Chinese diaspora within Thailand have shaped development at every stage. As the emerging nation struggled against colonial forces in Southeast Asia, ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs were neither a colonial force against whom Thainess was identified, nor had they been able to fully assimilate into Thai society. Wasana Wongsurawat demonstrates that the Kingdom of Thailand’s transformation into a modern nation-state required the creation of a national identity that justified not only the hegemonic rule of monarchy but also the involvement of the ethnic Chinese entrepreneurial class upon whom it depended. Her revisionist view traces the evolution of this codependent relationship through the twentieth century, as Thailand struggled against colonial forces in Southeast Asia, found itself an ally of Japan in World War II, and reconsidered its relationship with China in the postwar era.
Author | : Philip J. Haythornthwaite |
Publisher | : Arms & Armour |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : 9781854093516 |
Contains chapters on the history of the war, weapons and tactics, individual assessments of the warring nations, biographies of the leading figures, and sources of more information.
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 | : F. Turpin |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2009-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429040165 |