The Journal of the Siam Society
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Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Thailand |
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Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Thailand |
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Author | : Siam Society |
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Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1911 |
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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 | : Siam Society |
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Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Thailand |
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Author | : Siam Society |
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Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Thailand |
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Author | : Thant Myint-U |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1324003308 |
How did one of the world’s "buzzy hotspots" (Fodor’s 2013) become one of the top ten places to avoid (Fodor’s 2018)? Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma’s population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. But when decades of military dictatorship finally ended and internationally beloved Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from long years of house arrest, hopes soared. World leaders such as Barack Obama ushered in waves of international support. Progress seemed inevitable. As historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U saw the cracks forming. In this insider’s diagnosis of a country at a breaking point, he dissects how a singularly predatory economic system, fast-rising inequality, disintegrating state institutions, the impact of new social media, the rise of China next door, climate change, and deep-seated feelings around race, religion, and national identity all came together to challenge the incipient democracy. Interracial violence soared and a horrific exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fixed international attention. Myint-U explains how and why this happened, and details an unsettling prognosis for the future. Burma is today a fragile stage for nearly all the world’s problems. Are democracy and an economy that genuinely serves all its people possible in Burma? In clear and urgent prose, Myint-U explores this question—a concern not just for the Burmese but for the rest of the world—warning of the possible collapse of this nation of 55 million while suggesting a fresh agenda for change.
Author | : Siam Society |
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Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Thailand |
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Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Thailand |
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Author | : Siam Society |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1966-12 |
Genre | : Natural history |
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Author | : Jeremias van Vliet |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
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The most detailed, fascinating, and lively account of old Siam was written by the Dutch merchant Jeremias Van Vliet between 1636 and 1640. This volume includes all four of his writings in English translation: the earliest surviving chronicle of Siam's history; a wide-ranging description of the kingdom's geography, economy, society, politics, and religion; a blow-by-blow account of a bloody power struggle over the crown; and the Dutchman's diary during a crisis -- the Picnic Incident -- published here for the first time. The editors add new details on Van Vliet's life, the Dutch community, the city of Ayutthaya, and the court of King Prasat Thong, which set this ordinary merchant's extraordinary literary work into its context of time and place.Chris Baker is co-author of Thailand: Economy and Politics and A History of Thailand. Dhiravat na Pombejra teaches history at Chulalongkorn University. Alfons van der Kraan teaches in the School of Economics, University of New England, Australia. David K. Wyatt is John Stambaugh Professor Emeritus of History at Cornell University.