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A Civilized Woman: M. L. Boonlua Debhayasuwan and the Thai Twentieth Century

March 22, 2015

Boonlua Debhayasuwan was born into a noble Siamese family in 1911 and not only witnessed but participated in the great events of her century. Boonlua became one of the first Thai women to earn a university degree. As an official in the Ministry of Education, she worked to improve and represent Thailand at education conferences. […]
Queer Bangkok: 21st Century Markets, Media, and Rights (Queer Asia)

March 22, 2015

This book analyses the roles of the market and media — especially cinema and the Internet — in these transformations, and considers the ambiguous consequences that the growing commodification and mediatisation of queer lives have had for LGBT rights in Thailand. A key finding is that in the early 21st Century processes of global queering […]
World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

March 22, 2015

World Conqueror and World Renouncer is the first comprehensive and authoritative work on the relationship between Buddhism and the polity (political organization) in Thailand. The book conveys the historical background necessary for full comprehension of the contemporary structural relationship between Buddhism, the sangha (monastic order), and the polity, including the historic institution of kingship. Professor […]
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 […]
Mien Relations: Mountain People and State Control in Thailand

March 22, 2015

Thailand’s hill tribes have been the object of anthropological research, cultural tourism, and government intervention for a century, in large part because these groups are held to have preserved distinctive ethnic traditions despite their contacts with “modern” culture. Hjorleifur Jonsson rejects the conventional notion that the worlds of traditional peoples are being transformed or undone […]
Lords of Life: A History of the Kings of Thailand

March 22, 2015

The history of the Chakri dynasty, rulers of Siam until the change of regime in 1932, written by Price Chula Chakrabongse. Sale Price:$34.79 616733935X
The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej

March 22, 2015

Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and is now the world’s longest-serving monarch. The King Never Smiles, the first independent biography of Thailand’s monarch, tells the unexpected story of Bhumibol’s life and sixty-year rulehow a Western-raised boy came to be seen by […]
A Special Relationship: The United States and Military Government in Thailand, 1947-1958

March 22, 2015

Book by Fineman, Daniel Sale Price:$13.99 0824818180
Rituals of National Loyalty

March 22, 2015

In the 1970s, the Thai state organized the Village Scout movement to counter communist insurgency. The movement was soon used to thwart growing demands for democratic reform, recruiting five million members to become the largest mass organization in Thai history, and, mobilized by the military-controlled media, helped topple a civilian government and restore military rule. […]
Thailand and World War II

March 22, 2015

In Thailand and World War II, Direk Jayanama provides a unique, first-hand account of Thailand’s diplomatic, military, and economic history between 1938 and 1948. Diplomat, statesman, academic, and writer, Direk Jayanama helped guide the Thai nation through a turbulent period in its history. He was Deputy Prime Minister when Thailand was forced on 8 December […]

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