Author: M. Epstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270697
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1517
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: M. Epstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270697
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1517
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270697
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1517
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: S. Steinberg
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270778
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1500
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270778
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1500
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: Mortimer Epstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270700
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270700
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Area Handbook for Thailand
Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
The Political Development of Modern Thailand
Author: Federico Ferrara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107061814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
This book traces the roots of Thailand's political development from 1932 to the present, accounting for the intervening period's political turmoil.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107061814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
This book traces the roots of Thailand's political development from 1932 to the present, accounting for the intervening period's political turmoil.
The Statesman's Year-book
Author: Frederick Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1556
Book Description
U.S. Army Area Handbook for Thailand
Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Monastery, Monument, Museum
Author: Maurizio Peleggi
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824866096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824866096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
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 New Siam in the Making
In Search of Southeast Asia
Author: David Joel Steinberg
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824845420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824845420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description