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Van Vliet's Siam

Author : Jeremias van Vliet
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Van Vliet's Siam written by Jeremias van Vliet and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dutch East India Company Merchants at the Court of Ayutthaya

Author : Bhawan Ruangsilp
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004156003
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Dutch East India Company Merchants at the Court of Ayutthaya written by Bhawan Ruangsilp and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the early modern Dutch-Thai interactions as told by the merchants of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who concurrently tried to find a balance between their 'partnership' with and 'sense of differences' from the Thai elite.

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III

Author : Donald F. Lach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226467689
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III by : Donald F. Lach

Download or read book Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III written by Donald F. Lach and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-12-15 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Book 3: Southeast Asia examines European images of the lands, societies, religions, and cultures of Southeast Asia. The continental nations of Siam, Vietnam, Malaya, Pegu, Arakan, Cambodia, and Laos are discussed, as are the islands of Java, Bali, Sumatra, Borneo, Amboina, the Moluccas, the Bandas, Celebes, the Lesser Sundas, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Mindanao, Jolo, Guam, and the Marianas.

Siamese State Ceremonies

Author : H. G. Quaritch Wales
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136776362
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Siamese State Ceremonies written by H. G. Quaritch Wales and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To students of Indian Culture interested in tracing the influence of India in the institutions of her Cultural Colonies, as also to Anthropologists, the Religious Festivals and Court Ceremonies, which still remain the most characteristic features of Siamese social life, offer an important field for research. Yet the subject has been little touched by scholars. Therefore a pioneer work of this nature can only be regarded as an attempt to lay a foundation for further studies, and the author hopes that other students—particularly those Siamese possessed of an extensive knowledge of their own literature and customs—may be encouraged to endeavour to fill those gaps which remain in our knowledge of most of the Siamese State Ceremonies. First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Commercial Cosmopolitanism?

Author : Felicia Gottmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100035380X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Commercial Cosmopolitanism? written by Felicia Gottmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern period. Cosmopolitanism is not only a philosophical ideal: for many centuries it has also been an everyday practice across the globe. The early modern era saw hitherto unprecedented levels of economic interconnectedness. States, societies, and individuals reacted with a mixture of commercial idealism and commercial anxiety, seeking at once to exploit new opportunities for growth whilst limiting its disruptive effects. In highlighting the range of commercial cosmopolitan practices that grew out of early modern globalisation, the book demonstrates that it provided robust alternatives to the universalising western imperial model of the later period. Deploying a number of interdisciplinary methodologies, the kind of ‘methodological cosmopolitanism’ that Ulrich Beck has called for, chapters provide agency-centred evaluations of the risks and opportunities inherent in the ambiguous role of the cosmopolitan, who, often playing on and mobilising a number of identities, operated in between and outside of different established legal, social, and cultural systems. The book will be important reading for students and scholars working at the intersection of economic, global, and cultural history.

A History of Ayutthaya

Author : Chris Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108121438
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book A History of Ayutthaya written by Chris Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history has been neglected. This book is the first study of Ayutthaya from its emergence in the thirteenth century until its fall. It offers a wide-ranging view of social, political, and cultural history with focus on commerce, kingship, Buddhism, and war. By drawing on a wide range of sources including chronicles, accounts by Europeans, Chinese, Persians, and Japanese, law, literature, art, landscape, and language, the book presents early Siam as a 'commercial' society, not the peasant society usually assumed. Baker and Phongpaichit attribute the fall of the city not to internal conflict or dynastic decline but failure to manage the social and political consequences of prosperity. This book is essential reading for all those interested in the history of Southeast Asia and the early modern world.

The Lost Samurai

Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1526758997
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Samurai written by Stephen Turnbull and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An inherently fascinating, impressively well written, exceptionally informative, and meticulously detailed history” of Japanese overseas mercenaries (Midwest Book Review). The Lost Samurai reveals the greatest untold story of Japan’s legendary warrior class, which is that for almost a hundred years Japanese samurai were employed as mercenaries in the service of the kings of Siam, Cambodia, Burma, Spain and Portugal, as well as by the directors of the Dutch East India Company. The Japanese samurai were used in dramatic assault parties, as royal bodyguards, as staunch garrisons and as willing executioners. As a result, a stereotypical image of the fierce Japanese warrior developed that had a profound influence on the way they were regarded by their employers. While the Southeast Asian kings tended to employ samurai on a long-term basis as palace guards, their European employers usually hired them on a temporary basis for specific campaigns. Also, whereas the Southeast Asian monarchs tended to trust their well-established units of Japanese mercenaries, the Europeans, while admiring them, also feared them. In every European example a progressive shift in attitude may be discerned from initial enthusiasm to great suspicion that the Japanese might one day turn against them, as illustrated by the long-standing Spanish fear of an invasion of the Philippines by Japan accompanied by a local uprising. During the 1630s, when Japan chose isolation rather than engagement with Southeast Asia, it left these fierce mercenaries stranded in distant countries never to return: lost samurai indeed!

English Intercourse with Siam in the Seventeenth Century

Author : John Anderson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415245487
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book English Intercourse with Siam in the Seventeenth Century written by John Anderson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1890. This early works is a comprehensive and informative look at the subject and will appeal to any historian. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies

Author : Stefan Halikowski Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900420685X
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies written by Stefan Halikowski Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the sizeable Portuguese community in Ayutthaya, the chief river-state in Siam, during a period in which Portuguese power in the region declined. The analysis turns on the creolization and diaspora that affected this community, as well as problems with international trade, the Christian conversion process, and European rivalries.

Siam & the West, 1500-1700

Author : Dirk Van der Cruysse
Publisher : Silkworm Books
ISBN 13 : 1630411620
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Siam & the West, 1500-1700 written by Dirk Van der Cruysse and published by Silkworm Books. This book was released on 2002-05-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambassadors from Versailles in wigs and lace mounted on elephants crossing rice fields... Siamese mandarins prostrate before the throne of Louis XIV... a Greek adventurer... a scheming French Jesuit— these are just a few of the colourful characters that playa role in the early history of relations between Siam and the West. In a lively and engaging style, Professor Dirk Van der Cruysse traces the history of European-Siamese relations, from the arrival of the Portuguese around the beginning of the sixteenth century followed by the Dutch, the British, and the French. Explorers, merchants, missionaries, and ambassadors came and went across the oceans, sometimes producing vivid accounts of lengthy voyages, lavish courts, and strange customs. In these descriptions and anecdotes we observe the startling juxtaposition of fundamentally different worldviews arising from two distinct religious milieux. Van der Cruysse expertly weaves together material from journals,memoirs, and other archival documents, quoting from them extensively to construct a compelling historical account of a fascinating relationship. Originally published as Louis XIV et le Siam (Fayard, 1991), this English version has been ably translated by Michael Smithies, author of numerous books and articles on the French involvement in Siam during the seventeenth century.

Monastery, Monument, Museum

Author : Maurizio Peleggi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824866096
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Monastery, Monument, Museum written by Maurizio Peleggi and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging across the longue durée of Thailand’s history, Monastery, Monument, Museum is an eminently readable and original contribution to the study of the kingdom’s art and culture. Eschewing issues of dating, style, and iconography, historian Maurizio Peleggi addresses distinct types of artifacts and artworks as both the products and vehicles of cultural memory. From the temples of Chiangmai to the Emerald Buddha, from the National Museum of Bangkok to the prehistoric culture of Northeast Thailand, and from the civic monuments of the 1930s to the political artworks of the late twentieth century, even well-known artworks and monuments reveal new meanings when approached from this perspective. Part I, “Sacred Geographies,” focuses on the premodern era, when religious credence informed the cultural alteration of landscape, and devotional sites and artifacts, including visual representation of the Buddhist cosmology, were created. Part II, “Antiquities, Museums, and National History,” covers the 1830s through the 1970s, when antiquarianism, and eventually archaeology, emerged and developed in the kingdom, partly the result of a shift in the elites’ worldview and partly a response to colonial and neocolonial projects of knowledge. Part III, “Discordant Mnemoscapes,” deals with civic monuments and artworks that anchor memory of twentieth-century political events and provide stages for both their commemoration and counter-commemoration by evoking the country’s embattled political present. Monastery, Monument, Museum shows us how cultural memory represents a kind of palimpsest, the result of multiple inscriptions, reworkings, and manipulations over time. The book will be a rewarding read for historians, art historians, anthropologists, and Buddhism scholars working on Thailand and Southeast Asia generally, as well as for academic and general readers with an interest in memory and material culture.

The Journal of the Siam Society

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of the Siam Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essay Towards a Bibliography of Siam

Author : Ernest Mason Satow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essay Towards a Bibliography of Siam written by Ernest Mason Satow and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Royalty and Commoners

Author : Wilson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004643826
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Royalty and Commoners written by Wilson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thailand’s Buddhist Kingship in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Author : Marie-Sybille de Vienne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000567583
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Thailand’s Buddhist Kingship in the 20th and 21st Centuries written by Marie-Sybille de Vienne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on two decades of fieldwork, including over a hundred interviews with various political and economic actors at different social levels, as well as documentary and media analysis, this volume presents an account of the Buddhist monarchy in Thailand, offering a sociology of elites, an analysis of the economic influence of the Crown and an examination of the magic and ritual dimension of kingship. An exploration of the role and status of the Palace over the last century, whether as a guarantor of democracy, a symbol of stability, a source of power or an object of popular discontent, Thailand’s Buddhist Kingship in the 20th and 21st Centuries will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology with interests in material religion, politics and Southeast Asian studies.

Arc of Feeling

Author : Javier Moscoso
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789146933
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Arc of Feeling written by Javier Moscoso and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From beloved elements of children’s playgrounds to leather tools of bondage, a sweeping study of the cultural significance of swings. In Arc of Feeling Javier Moscoso investigates the pleasure of oscillation and explores the surprising history of the swing through its meanings and metaphors, noting echoes and coincidences in remote times and places: from the witch’s broom to aerial yoga and from the gallows to sexual mores. Taking in cultural history, science, art, anthropology, and philosophy, Moscoso explores the presence and role of this artifact in the West, such as in the works of Watteau, Fragonard, and Goya, as well as in other Eastern traditions, including those of India, Korea, Thailand, and China. Linked since ancient times with sex and death, used by gods and madmen, as well as an erotic and therapeutic instrument, the swing is revealed to be an essential but forgotten object in the history of human experience.

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand

Author : Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351364871
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand written by Pavin Chachavalpongpun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand is a timely survey and assessment of the state of contemporary Thailand. While Thailand has changed much in the past decades, this handbook proposes that many of its problems have remained intact or even persistent, particularly problems related to domestic politics. It underlines emerging issues at this critical juncture in the kingdom and focuses on the history, politics, economy, society, culture, religion and international relations of the country. A multidisciplinary approach, with chapters written by experts on Thailand, this handbook is divided into the following sections. History Political and economic landscape Social development International relations Designed for academics, students, libraries, policymakers and general readers in the field of Asian studies, political science, economics and sociology, this invaluable reference work provides an up-to-date account of Thailand and initiates new discussion for future research activities.