Author: Herbert Warington SmythPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Five Years in Siam, from 1891 to 1896
Author: Herbert Warington SmythPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Five Years in Siam from 1891 to 1896, by H. Warington Smyth,...
Author: Herbert Warington SmythFive Years in Siam
Author: Five Years in Siam, from 1891 to 1896
Author: Herbert Warington SmythPublisher:
ISBN: 9780598946393
Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Five Years in Siam, from 1891 to 1896
Author: H[erbert SmythPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Catalogue of the Asiatic Library of Dr. G. E. Morrison, Now a Part of the Oriental Library, Tokyo, Japan: English books
Author: Tōyō Bunko (Japan)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Five Years in Siam, from 1891-1896
Author: Herbert Warington SmythPublisher:
ISBN: 9789748495989
Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The Closing of the Frontier
Author: John G. ButcherPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004502025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
This book is the first on the history of the marine fisheries of Southeast Asia. It takes as its central theme the movement of fisheries into new fishing grounds, particularly the diverse ecosystems that make up the seas of Southeast Asia. This process accelerated between the 1950s and 1970s in what the author calls the great fish race . Catches soared as the population of the region grew, demand from Japan and North America for shrimps and tuna increased, and fishers adopted more efficient ways of locating, catching, and preserving fish. But the great fish race soon brought about the severe depletion of one fish population after another, while pollution and the destruction of mangroves and coral reefs degraded fish habitats. Today the relentless movement into new fishing grounds has come to an end, for there are no new fishing grounds to exploit. The frontier of fisheries has closed. The challenge now is to exploit the seas in ways that preserve the diversity of marine life while providing the people of the region with a source of food long into the future.
The Critic
Author: Jeannette Leonard GilderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Bones around My Neck
Author: Tamara LoosPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501706713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935) served as Siam's first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam’s political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based on rumors about fiscal corruption, sexual immorality, and political treason. In Bones around My Neck, Tamara Loos pursues the truth behind these rumors, which chased Prisdang out of Siam. Her book recounts the personal and political adventures of an unwitting provocateur who caused a commotion in every country he inhabited.Prisdang spent his first five years in exile from Siam living in disguise as a commoner and employee of the British Empire in colonial Southeast Asia. He then resurfaced in the 1890s in British Ceylon, where he was ordained as a Buddhist monk and became a widely respected abbot. Foreigners from around the world were drawn to this prince who had discarded wealth and royal status to lead the life of an ascetic. His fluency in English, royal blood, acute intellect, and charisma earned him importance in international diplomatic and Buddhist circles. Prisdang’s life journey reminds us of the complexities of the colonial encounter and the recalibrations it caused in local political cultures. His drama offers more than a story about Siamese politics: it also casts in high relief the subjective experience of global imperialism. Telling this history from the vantage point of a remarkable individual grounds and animates the historical abstractions of imperialism, Buddhist universalism, and the transformation of Siam into a modern state.