Thailand | Asian History Books

A History of Thailand

March 22, 2015

In A History of Thailand, Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree labour evolved into a rural society of smallholder peasants and an urban society populated mainly by migrants from southern China. They trace how a Buddhist cosmography adapted to new ideas of time and space, and a […]
America Grows Up a History for Peter

March 22, 2015

Book by Johnson, G. W. Sale Price:$63.40 0688210155
Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation

March 22, 2015

This study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped challenges much that has been written on Thai history because it demonstrates that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic. Sale Price:$108.17 […]
The Legend of Queen Cama: Bodhiramsi’s Camadevivamsa, a Translation and Commentary (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies)

March 22, 2015

An English translation and a commentary on the chronicle of Queen Cama, an important but neglected female monarch who founded a dynasty in Northern Thailand.The Legend of Queen Cama (Camadevivamsa), an early fifteenth-century Pali chronicle written by Mahathera Bodhiramsi, recounts the story of the founding of the kingdom of Haripunjaya in the Chiang Mai valley […]
Wave of Destruction: The Stories of Four Families and History’s Deadliest Tsunami

March 22, 2015

At just before 8:00 a.m. local time on December 26, 2004, a monstrously powerful earthquake erupted on the floor of the Indian Ocean. The quake roared across the seabed for a full ten minutes—most earthquakes last only a few seconds—and is estimated to have had a shocking magnitude of 9.15 on the Richter scale.The earthquake, […]
Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President

March 22, 2015

The first 18 years of President Obama’s life, from his birth in 1961 to his departure for college in 1979, were spent in Hawai‘i and Indonesia. These years fundamentally shaped the traits for which the adult Obama is noted—his protean identity, his nuanced appreciation of multiple views of the same object, his cosmopolitan breadth of […]
A Pictorial Journey on the Old Mekong: Mekong Exploration Report 1866-1868

March 22, 2015

A Pictorial Journey on the Old Mekong: Cambodia, Laos and Yunnan, Vol. 3 of the Mekong Exploration Commission Report (1866-1868). Sale Price:$125.00 9748496767
The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop: Java and the Burma – Thailand Railway 1942-1945

March 22, 2015

More than 40 years ago Sir Edward Dunlop, then a Lieutenant-Colonel, began these diaries at the start of his imprisonment by the Japanese in Java and on the Burma-Thailand railway. His meticulous observations of prison camp life were concealed all through the war, and by the time peace came in 1945, he carried with him […]
Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies)

March 22, 2015

Winner of the Henry J. Benda Prize sponsored by the Association for Asian StudiesGathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred texts and commentaries, Justin McDaniel traces curricular variations in Buddhist oral and written education that reflect […]
Working at the Bar: Sex Work and Health Communication in Thailand (Civic Discourse for the Third Millennium)

March 22, 2015

Commercial sex is the occupation of a significant portion of the women of the world, providing economic support for millions of people and their families. Working at the Bar is the first-ever, long-term, longitudinal, in-depth study of a large sex work industry—and Thailand, the most prominent nation in the rapidly growing sex tourism industry, makes […]

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