Author: Nicolas Revire
Publisher:
ISBN: 9786167339412
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents new research and discoveries to reconstruct the cultures, religious persuasions and artistic traditions in pre-modern Thailand and its neighboring regions.
Before Siam
Author: Nicolas Revire
Publisher:
ISBN: 9786167339412
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents new research and discoveries to reconstruct the cultures, religious persuasions and artistic traditions in pre-modern Thailand and its neighboring regions.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9786167339412
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents new research and discoveries to reconstruct the cultures, religious persuasions and artistic traditions in pre-modern Thailand and its neighboring regions.
A History of Ayutthaya
Author: Chris Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107190762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The first full history of a great commercial and political center that rose in Asia over almost five centuries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107190762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The first full history of a great commercial and political center that rose in Asia over almost five centuries.
1819 & Before
Author: Kwa Chong Guan
Publisher: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
ISBN: 9814951420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles’s establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore’s history before Raffles. Altogether, these essays suggest that Singapore had a pre-1819 past that was deeply connected to the millennium-long maritime history of the Straits of Melaka and its links to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
Publisher: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
ISBN: 9814951420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles’s establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore’s history before Raffles. Altogether, these essays suggest that Singapore had a pre-1819 past that was deeply connected to the millennium-long maritime history of the Straits of Melaka and its links to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
Siam Mapped
Author: Thongchai Winichakul
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824819743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824819743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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.
The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia
Author: James Richardson Logan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Siam's New Detectives
Author: Samson Lim
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824855280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Visual evidence is the sine qua non of the modern criminal process—from photographs and video to fingerprints and maps. Siam's New Detectives offers an analytical history of these visual tools as employed by the Thai police when investigating crime. Covering the period between the late nineteenth century and the end of the Cold War, the book provides both an extended overview of the development and evolution of modern police practices in Thailand, and a window into the role of the Thai police within a larger cultural system of knowledge production about crime, violence, and history. Based on a diverse set of primary sources—police reports, detective training manuals, trial records, newspaper stories, memoirs, archival documents, and hard-to-find crime fiction—the book makes two related arguments. First, the factuality of the visual evidence used in the criminal justice system stems as much from formal conventions—proper lighting in a crime scene photo, standardized markings on maps—as from the reality of what is being represented. Second, some images, once created, function as tools, helping the police produce truths about the criminal past. This generative power makes images such as crime scene maps useful as investigative aids but also means that scholars cannot analyze them simply in terms of mimetic accuracy or interpret them in isolation for deeper meaning. Understanding how modern legal systems operate requires an examination of the visual culture of the law, particularly the aesthetic rules that govern the generation and use of documentary evidence. By examining modern policing in terms of visual culture, Siam's New Detectives makes important methodological contributions. The book shows how a historical analysis of form can supplement the way many scholars have traditionally approached visual sources, as symbols requiring a close reading. By acknowledging the productive nature of images in addition to their symbolic functions, the book makes clear that policing is fundamentally an interactive, creative endeavor as much as a disciplinary one.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824855280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Visual evidence is the sine qua non of the modern criminal process—from photographs and video to fingerprints and maps. Siam's New Detectives offers an analytical history of these visual tools as employed by the Thai police when investigating crime. Covering the period between the late nineteenth century and the end of the Cold War, the book provides both an extended overview of the development and evolution of modern police practices in Thailand, and a window into the role of the Thai police within a larger cultural system of knowledge production about crime, violence, and history. Based on a diverse set of primary sources—police reports, detective training manuals, trial records, newspaper stories, memoirs, archival documents, and hard-to-find crime fiction—the book makes two related arguments. First, the factuality of the visual evidence used in the criminal justice system stems as much from formal conventions—proper lighting in a crime scene photo, standardized markings on maps—as from the reality of what is being represented. Second, some images, once created, function as tools, helping the police produce truths about the criminal past. This generative power makes images such as crime scene maps useful as investigative aids but also means that scholars cannot analyze them simply in terms of mimetic accuracy or interpret them in isolation for deeper meaning. Understanding how modern legal systems operate requires an examination of the visual culture of the law, particularly the aesthetic rules that govern the generation and use of documentary evidence. By examining modern policing in terms of visual culture, Siam's New Detectives makes important methodological contributions. The book shows how a historical analysis of form can supplement the way many scholars have traditionally approached visual sources, as symbols requiring a close reading. By acknowledging the productive nature of images in addition to their symbolic functions, the book makes clear that policing is fundamentally an interactive, creative endeavor as much as a disciplinary one.
The Burney Papers: pt.1. Oct. 1825-Apr. 1826
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
The Burney Papers ...
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ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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The British Army, the Gurkhas and Cold War Strategy in the Far East, 1947–1954
Author: Raffi Gregorian
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230287166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This book argues that postwar Britain's 'imperial over-extension' has been exaggerated. Britain developed and adjusted its defence strategy based upon the perceived Communist threat and available resources. It was especially successful at adapting to meet the strategic and resource challenges from the Far East from 1947-54. There British and Gurkha forces were deployed only in contingencies that threatened vital British interests, while the U.S. and Commonwealth allies were persuaded to accept key wartime missions, thus preserving Britain's ability to fight in Western Europe.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230287166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This book argues that postwar Britain's 'imperial over-extension' has been exaggerated. Britain developed and adjusted its defence strategy based upon the perceived Communist threat and available resources. It was especially successful at adapting to meet the strategic and resource challenges from the Far East from 1947-54. There British and Gurkha forces were deployed only in contingencies that threatened vital British interests, while the U.S. and Commonwealth allies were persuaded to accept key wartime missions, thus preserving Britain's ability to fight in Western Europe.
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian
Author: Marco Polo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description