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Two Yankee Diplomats in 1830s Siam

Author : Edmund Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Two Yankee Diplomats in 1830s Siam written by Edmund Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents accounts of two 1830s American diplomatic missions to Siam, aimed at securing better trade terms than those obtained during the British Burney mission of 1826. The first American diplomatic mission to Siam was led by Edmund Roberts in 1822. He attempted to secure better terms than the British Burney mission of 1826 had obtained, but the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between His Majesty the Magnificent King of Siam, and the United States of America, which he concluded, was much the same, reducing the numerous arbitrary charges on trade to a single

Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History

Author : Yunte Huang
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 163149385X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History written by Yunte Huang and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An astonishing story, by turns ghastly, hilarious, unnerving, and moving.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve In this “excellent” portrait of America’s famed nineteenth-century Siamese twins, celebrated biographer Yunte Huang discovers in the conjoined lives of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874) a trenchant “comment on the times in which we live” (Wall Street Journal). “Uncovering ironies, paradoxes and examples of how Chang and Eng subverted what Leslie Fiedler called ‘the tyranny of the normal’ ” (BBC), Huang depicts the twins’ implausible route to assimilation after their “discovery” in Siam by a British merchant in 1824 and arrival in Boston as sideshow curiosities in 1829. Their climb from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich, southern gentry who profited from entertaining the Jacksonian mobs; their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in twenty-one children; and their owning of slaves, is here not just another sensational biography but an “extraordinary” (New York Times), Hawthorne-like excavation of America’s historical penchant for tyrannizing the other—a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself.

The Lives of Chang & Eng

Author : Joseph Andrew Orser
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469618303
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of Chang & Eng written by Joseph Andrew Orser and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America

Consuls and the Institutions of Global Capitalism, 1783–1914

Author : Ferry de Goey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317320972
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Consuls and the Institutions of Global Capitalism, 1783–1914 by : Ferry de Goey

Download or read book Consuls and the Institutions of Global Capitalism, 1783–1914 written by Ferry de Goey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century saw the expansion of Western influence across the globe. A consular presence in a new territory had numerous advantages for business and trade. Using specific case studies, de Goey demonstrates the key role played by consuls in the rise of the global economy.

Dr. Richardson's Missions to Siam, 1829-1839

Author : David Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dr. Richardson's Missions to Siam, 1829-1839 written by David Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Raising the Flag

Author : Peter D. Eicher
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640120386
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Raising the Flag written by Peter D. Eicher and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception the United States has sent envoys to advance American interests abroad, both across oceans and to areas that later became part of the country. Little has been known about these first envoys until now. From China to Chile, Tripoli to Tahiti, Mexico to Muscat, Peter D. Eicher chronicles the experience of the first American envoys in foreign lands. Their stories, often stranger than fiction, are replete with intrigues, revolutions, riots, war, shipwrecks, swashbucklers, desperadoes, and bootleggers. The circumstances the diplomats faced were precursors to today's headlines: Americans at war in the Middle East, intervention in Latin America, pirates off Africa, trade deficits with China. Early envoys abroad faced hostile governments, physical privations, disease, isolation, and the daunting challenge of explaining American democracy to foreign rulers. Many suffered threats from tyrannical despots, some were held as slaves or hostages, and others led foreign armies into battle. Some were heroes, some were scoundrels, and many perished far from home. From the American Revolution to the Civil War, Eicher profiles the characters who influenced the formative period of American diplomacy and the first steps the United States took as a world power. Their experiences combine to chart key trends in the development of early U.S. foreign policy that continue to affect us today. Raising the Flag illuminates how American ideas, values, and power helped shape the modern world.

Three Military Accounts of the 1688 "revolution" in Siam

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Author : Desfarges (General)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Three Military Accounts of the 1688 "revolution" in Siam written by Desfarges (General) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text comprises three texts which shed light on the failure of the French to colonize Siam at the end of the 17th century. Events surrounding the coup d'etat of 18th May, 1688, which took place in the Siamese Versailles at Lopburi, are examined. The coup d'etat of 18 May 1688 in the Siamese Versailles at Lopburi led to the establishment of the last Ayutthayan dynasty, known to history as that of Ban Phlu Luang. But it was not just another internal palace coup in the face of the imminent death of the reigning monarch, Narai. For the king's favourite,

Narratives of Free Trade

Author : Kendall Johnson
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888083538
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Free Trade written by Kendall Johnson and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine essays discuss the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of systemic social change and a United States struggling to assert itself globally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War, from the arrival in Canton of the first American ship in the 1870s, to the 1844 Treaty of Wangxia in Macao after the First Opium War, to Secretary of State John Hay's forging of the Open Door policy in 1899. Broad in scope, the essays are attuned to the activities of competing European traders, especially the British, in Canton, Macao, and the Pearl River Delta. Kendall Johnsonis director of the American Studies Program and associate professor at the University of Hong Kong.

The Journal of the Siam Society

Author : Siam Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of the Siam Society written by Siam Society and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Macao - The Formation of a Global City

Author : C.X. George Wei
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135119996
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Macao - The Formation of a Global City written by C.X. George Wei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. Held by the Portuguese from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, Macao was up to the emergence of Hong Kong in the later nineteenth century the principal point of entry into China for all Westerners - Dutch, British and others, as well as Portuguese. The relatively relaxed nature of Portuguese colonial rule, intermarriage, the mixing of Chinese and Western cultures, and the fact that Macao served as a safe haven for many Chinese reformers at odds with the Chinese authorities, including Sun Yat-sen, all combined to make Macao a very different and special place. This book explores how Macao was formed over the centuries. It puts forward substantial new research findings and new thinking, and covers a wide range of issues. It is a companion volume to Macao - Cultural Interaction and Literary Representations.

Village Vignettes

Author : Michael Smithies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Village Vignettes written by Michael Smithies and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of portraits of the people who comprise the mosaic of a typical north-eastern Thai village, this text describes such characters as the half-Chinese, the fortune teller, Miss cotton bud, native entrepreneur and bar boy.

Encyclopedia of Exploration, 1800 to 1850

Author : Raymond John Howgego
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Exploration, 1800 to 1850 written by Raymond John Howgego and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 732 major articles, Raymond Howgego's Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850 attempts to detail every significant traveller, voyager or expedition that set out during the period. Its indexes provide the names of over 3000 travellers and 1000 ships, while the bibliographies cite more than 10,000 works of reference. Extensive biographical information is included for the travellers themselves, placing every expedition thoroughly in its historical context. The text is fully cross-referenced between articles, whilst every article is supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography of both primary and secondary sources.

China and the International System, 1840-1949

Author : David Scott
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791477428
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book China and the International System, 1840-1949 written by David Scott and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.

Review of culture

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Review of culture written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Description of the Kingdom of Siam, 1690

Author : Engelbert Kaempfer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789748299167
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book A Description of the Kingdom of Siam, 1690 written by Engelbert Kaempfer and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an early account of an observer, neither French nor Catholic, who avoided both biases, in describing the various factions of Siamese society, and the promotion of Christianity or both European national interests in Siam.

James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War

Author : John W. Quist
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813045037
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War by : John W. Quist

Download or read book James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War written by John W. Quist and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As James Buchanan took office in 1857, the United States found itself at a crossroads. Dissolution of the Union had been averted and the Democratic Party maintained control of the federal government, but the nation watched to see if Pennsylvania's first president could make good on his promise to calm sectional tensions. Despite Buchanan's central role in a crucial hour in U.S. history, few presidents have been more ignored by historians. In assembling the essays for this volume, Michael Birkner and John Quist have asked leading scholars to reconsider whether Buchanan’s failures stemmed from his own mistakes or from circumstances that no president could have overcome. Buchanan's dealings with Utah shed light on his handling of the secession crisis. His approach to Dred Scott reinforces the image of a president whose doughface views were less a matter of hypocrisy than a thorough identification with southern interests. Essays on the secession crisis provide fodder for debate about the strengths and limitations of presidential authority in an existential moment for the young nation. Although the essays in this collection offer widely differing interpretations of Buchanan's presidency, they all grapple honestly with the complexities of the issues faced by the man who sat in the White House prior to the towering figure of Lincoln, and contribute to a deeper understanding of a turbulent and formative era.

American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859-73

Author : Hamish Ion
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774858990
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859-73 written by Hamish Ion and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan closed its doors to foreigners for over two hundred years because of religious and political instability caused by Christianity. By 1859, foreign residents were once again living in treaty ports in Japan, but edicts banning Christianity remained enforced until 1873. Drawing on an impressive array of English and Japanese sources, Ion investigates a crucial era in the history of Japanese-American relations the formation of Protestant missions. He reveals that the transmission of values and beliefs was not a simple matter of acceptance or rejection: missionaries and Christian laymen persisted in the face of open hostility and served as important liaisons between East and West.