Author: Sitt Sitthi-amornPublisher:
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Category : Language teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Nostalgic Memoirs of Siam and Life's Varying Fortunes
Author: Sitt Sitthi-amornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose ArnyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2184
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The Athenaeum
Author: Books in Print
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1662
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The Athenæum
Author: The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Couture
Author: Jacques de CoutrePublisher:
ISBN: 9789971696832
Category : Johor (Malaysia)
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the turn of the 17th century. He left history a substantial autobiography written in Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid. Written in the form of a picaresque tale, with an acute eye for the cultures he encountered, the memoirs tell the story of his adventures in the trading centres of the day: Melaka, Ayutthaya, Patani, Pahang, Johor, Brunei and Manila. Narrowly escaping death several times, De Coutre was inevitably drawn into dangerous intrigues between the representatives of European power, myriad fortune hunters and schemers, and the rulers and courtiers in the palaces of Pahang, Patani, Siam and Johor. In addition to his autobiography, De Coutre wrote a series of memorials to the united crown of Spain and Portugal that contain recommendations designed to remedy the decline in the fortunes of the Iberian powers in Southeast Asia, particularly against the backdrop of early Dutch political and commercial penetration into the region. Annotated and translated into English for the first time, these materials provide a valuable first-hand account of the issues confronting the early colonial powers in Southeast Asia, and deep into the societies De Coutre encountered in the territory that today makes up Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines. The book is lavishly illustrated with 62 maps and drawings of the period, including many examples not previously published.
The Works of Daniel De Foe, with a Memoir of His Life and Writings. By William Hazlitt. [With a Bibliography.]
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Author: Daniel DefoeAthenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: Inseparable
Author: Yunte HuangPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0871404478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were “discovered” in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almost implausible story, Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen who gained their freedom and traveled the backroads of rural America to bring “entertainment” to the Jacksonian mobs. Their rise from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich southern gentry; their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in twenty-one children; and their owning of slaves, is here not just another sensational biography but a Hawthorne-like excavation of America’s historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal, for tyrannizing the “other”—a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself.
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