Author: Simon de La Loubère
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronology, Oriental
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam
Author: Simon de La Loubère
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronology, Oriental
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronology, Oriental
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. II
Author: Samuel Hugh Moffett
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608331636
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The story of Christianity in the West has often been told, but the history of Christianity in the East is not as well known. The seed was the same: the good news of Jesus Christ for the whole world, which Christians call "the gospel." But it was sown by different sowers; it was planted in different soil; it grew with a different flavor; and it was gathered by different reapers. It is too often forgotten that the faith moved east across Asia as early as it moved west into Europe. Western church history tends to follow Paul to Philippi and to Rome and on across Europe to the conversion of Constantine and the barbarians. With some outstanding exceptions, only intermittently has the West looked beyond Constantinople as its center. It was a Christianity that has for centuries remained unashamedly Asian. A History of Christianity in Asia makes available immense amounts of research on religious pluralism of Asia and how Christianity spread long before the modern missionary movement went forth in the shelter of Western military might. Invaluable for historians of Asia and scholars of mission, it is stimulating for all readers interested in Christian history. --
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608331636
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The story of Christianity in the West has often been told, but the history of Christianity in the East is not as well known. The seed was the same: the good news of Jesus Christ for the whole world, which Christians call "the gospel." But it was sown by different sowers; it was planted in different soil; it grew with a different flavor; and it was gathered by different reapers. It is too often forgotten that the faith moved east across Asia as early as it moved west into Europe. Western church history tends to follow Paul to Philippi and to Rome and on across Europe to the conversion of Constantine and the barbarians. With some outstanding exceptions, only intermittently has the West looked beyond Constantinople as its center. It was a Christianity that has for centuries remained unashamedly Asian. A History of Christianity in Asia makes available immense amounts of research on religious pluralism of Asia and how Christianity spread long before the modern missionary movement went forth in the shelter of Western military might. Invaluable for historians of Asia and scholars of mission, it is stimulating for all readers interested in Christian history. --
Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens handlingar
Author:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Siam Becomes Thailand
Author: Judith A. Stowe
Publisher: C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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.
Publisher: C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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.
Thailand
Author: David K. Wyatt
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300084757
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This highly acclaimed book, the standard history of Thailand for almost twenty years, has now been completely revised by the author. David K. Wyatt has also added new sections examining the social and economic changes that have transformed the country in the past two decades. Praise for the previous edition: "Wyatt knows his subject well enough and has enough enthusiasm for it to make his book . . . entertaining as well as eminently educational."--David McElveen, Asiaweek "A very readable account. . . .We come away from reading it with a clearer understanding of where Thailand stands in relation to its neighbors, who the Thai people are, how the Thai government evolved into its present form."--James Stent, Asian Wall Street Journal "Concise, thorough, and readable."--John Gabree, New York Newsday
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300084757
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This highly acclaimed book, the standard history of Thailand for almost twenty years, has now been completely revised by the author. David K. Wyatt has also added new sections examining the social and economic changes that have transformed the country in the past two decades. Praise for the previous edition: "Wyatt knows his subject well enough and has enough enthusiasm for it to make his book . . . entertaining as well as eminently educational."--David McElveen, Asiaweek "A very readable account. . . .We come away from reading it with a clearer understanding of where Thailand stands in relation to its neighbors, who the Thai people are, how the Thai government evolved into its present form."--James Stent, Asian Wall Street Journal "Concise, thorough, and readable."--John Gabree, New York Newsday
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.
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III
Author: Donald F. Lach
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226466965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226466965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.
Asia in the Making of Europe
Author: Donald Frederick Lach
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226467651
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226467651
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization.
Asia in the Making of Europe
Author: Donald F. Lach
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226467535
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226467535
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description