Author: George B. Bacon
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365741540
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This book is a compilation from the annals of history. Taken from first-hand accounts of explorers, missionaries and traders from the West's earliest contact, this is a faithful synthesis of Thai history, culture and ethnography as they knew and observed it. George Bacon brings together the history of these tumultuous times, along with cultural description, a large extent of geographic knowledge, and insight into the people and their lives. He does all of this with a clear focus and a generosity of spirit that was rare for his time. This book is the valuable early account of Thailand as explorers first found her. As such, it is a rare window into a people and a place which is all but lost to us today. The power of memory for a people and a land is beyond estimation. The DNA of the people and the land that we find here in this book holds vital clues to us who would work to call up the Thai people into their divine, end-time destiny!
SIAM THE LAND OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT Its People, History and Culture
Author: George B. Bacon
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365741540
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This book is a compilation from the annals of history. Taken from first-hand accounts of explorers, missionaries and traders from the West's earliest contact, this is a faithful synthesis of Thai history, culture and ethnography as they knew and observed it. George Bacon brings together the history of these tumultuous times, along with cultural description, a large extent of geographic knowledge, and insight into the people and their lives. He does all of this with a clear focus and a generosity of spirit that was rare for his time. This book is the valuable early account of Thailand as explorers first found her. As such, it is a rare window into a people and a place which is all but lost to us today. The power of memory for a people and a land is beyond estimation. The DNA of the people and the land that we find here in this book holds vital clues to us who would work to call up the Thai people into their divine, end-time destiny!
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365741540
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This book is a compilation from the annals of history. Taken from first-hand accounts of explorers, missionaries and traders from the West's earliest contact, this is a faithful synthesis of Thai history, culture and ethnography as they knew and observed it. George Bacon brings together the history of these tumultuous times, along with cultural description, a large extent of geographic knowledge, and insight into the people and their lives. He does all of this with a clear focus and a generosity of spirit that was rare for his time. This book is the valuable early account of Thailand as explorers first found her. As such, it is a rare window into a people and a place which is all but lost to us today. The power of memory for a people and a land is beyond estimation. The DNA of the people and the land that we find here in this book holds vital clues to us who would work to call up the Thai people into their divine, end-time destiny!
Siam : The Land of the White Elephant as It Was and Is
Author: George B. Bacon
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
The book presents an informative and well-sourced look at Siam in the 1800s. It provides a historical background of the country, its tradition, religion, beliefs, and daily life.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
The book presents an informative and well-sourced look at Siam in the 1800s. It provides a historical background of the country, its tradition, religion, beliefs, and daily life.
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Eclectic Magazine
Author: John Holmes Agnew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Books and Reading
Author: Noah Porter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The Eclectic Magazine
Author: John Holmes Agnew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Thailand--its People, Its Society, Its Culture
Author: Frank John Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Lords of Things
Author: Maurizio Peleggi
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824825584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Lords of Things offers a fascinating interpretation of modernity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion its self and public image in the early stages of globalization. It examines the westernized modes of consumption and self-presentation, the residential and representational architecture, and the public spectacles appropriated by the Bangkok court not as byproducts of institutional reformation initiated by modernizing sovereigns, but as practices and objects constitutive of the very identity of the royalty as a civilized and civilizing class. Bringing a wealth of new source material into a theoretically informed discussion, Lords of Things will be required reading for historians of Thailand and Southeast Asia scholars generally. It represents a welcome change from previous studies of Siamese modernization that are almost exclusively concerned with the institutional and economic dimensions of the process or with foreign relations, and will appeal greatly to those interested in transnational cultural flows, the culture of colonialism, the invention of tradition, and the relationship between consumption and identity formation in the modern era.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824825584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Lords of Things offers a fascinating interpretation of modernity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion its self and public image in the early stages of globalization. It examines the westernized modes of consumption and self-presentation, the residential and representational architecture, and the public spectacles appropriated by the Bangkok court not as byproducts of institutional reformation initiated by modernizing sovereigns, but as practices and objects constitutive of the very identity of the royalty as a civilized and civilizing class. Bringing a wealth of new source material into a theoretically informed discussion, Lords of Things will be required reading for historians of Thailand and Southeast Asia scholars generally. It represents a welcome change from previous studies of Siamese modernization that are almost exclusively concerned with the institutional and economic dimensions of the process or with foreign relations, and will appeal greatly to those interested in transnational cultural flows, the culture of colonialism, the invention of tradition, and the relationship between consumption and identity formation in the modern era.
Civility and Savagery
Author: Andrew Turton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136797513
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This is a book about social differentiation and distinction in one of the ethnically and politically most complex regions of the world, dealing with crucial issues in currently renewed debates on cultural pluralism, nationalism, irredentism and ethnic dispersal. The themes are given a regional and historical focus by treating peoples within the Tai
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136797513
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This is a book about social differentiation and distinction in one of the ethnically and politically most complex regions of the world, dealing with crucial issues in currently renewed debates on cultural pluralism, nationalism, irredentism and ethnic dispersal. The themes are given a regional and historical focus by treating peoples within the Tai