Download or read book Tracks and Traces written by Philip Hirsch and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the threads that tie together an understanding of Thailand as a dynamic and rapidly changing society, through an examination of the work of one major scholar of the country, Andrew Turton. Turton's anthropological studies of Thailand cover a wide spectrum from politics and economy to ritual and culture, and have been crucial in shaping evolving understandings of Thai society. In this collection, ten leading specialists on Thailand from a variety of disciplines critically consider aspects of Turton's work in relation to the changing nature of different aspects of Thai society. The book tracks the links between past and present scholarship, examines the contextuality of scholarship in its times, and sheds light on the current situation in Thailand.

Download or read book British Trade and Expansion in Southeast Asia 1830 1914 written by D. R. SarDesai and published by New Delhi : Allied. This book was released on 1977 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Traders of the Golden Triangle written by Andrew Forbes and published by Cognoscenti Books. This book was released on 2013-02-03 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the latter half of the twentieth century the little-known and often lawless region where Laos, Burma, Thailand and China meet has become known and widely romanticised as 'The Golden Triangle'. Originally a Western designation applied to the region because of its wealth in jade, silver, rubies, lumber, rare animal products and, above all, opium, the name has stuck and is today accepted both in Chinese and in Thai.By reputation, by very definition, the area is off the beaten track. The home of drug warlords, arms dealers, insurgent armies, latter-day slave traders and plain, old-fashioned bandits, it is also the home of an extraordinarily wide range of colourful ethnic minorities, many still only partly known and understood, and a veritable Tower of Babel linguistically.36,500 words, 70 historical images, 46 contemporary images, 5 maps, Bibliography

Download or read book Burma from Kingdom to Republic written by Frank N. Trager and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1976 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Burma written by Frank Joseph Shulman and published by Lanham, MD : University Press of America ; Washington, D.C., USA : Wilson Center. This book was released on 1986 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published with the Asia program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Download or read book The Making of Burma written by Dorothy Woodman and published by London, Cresset P. This book was released on 1962 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political and diplomatic history of the Union of Burma over twenty centuries that traces its relations with China, Portugal, Holland, France and Great Britain.

Download or read book Bulletin of the Association of British Orientalists written by British Association of Orientalists and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book King Thebaw and the Ecological Rape of Burma written by Charles Lee Keeton and published by Delhi : Manohar Book Service. This book was released on 1974 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Historiography of the British Empire Commonwealth written by Robin W. Winks and published by Aldershot, England : Gregg Revivals. This book was released on 1995 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume of 22 essays by a range of leading academics, a substantial attempt has been made to examine the body of published historical literature relating to the British Empire and Commonwealth. The main purpose of the essays is threefold: to provide, individually and collectively, a critical assessment and survey of the literature available up to 1966; to explain how this literature has developed; and to act as a guide to subsequent research. This wide ranging and detailed survey continues to remain of central importance to students, academics and librarians alike, and benefits from a new introduction by Robin Winks.

Download or read book Bulletin of Oriental Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lord Randolph Churchill and the Dancing Peacock written by Htin Aung (U.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book David Scott in North East India 1802 1831 written by Nirode K. Barooah and published by New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal. This book was released on 1970 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Burma a Selected and Annotated Bibliography written by Frank N. Trager and published by New Haven : Human Relations Area Files Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated version of 1956 edition which was titled: Annotated bibliography of Burma.

Download or read book The Gold and Silver Road of Trade and Friendship written by Volker Grabowsky and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When British diplomats McLeod and Richardson set out on their missions to the Tai states in December 1836, their aim was trade and friendship. Captain William Couperus McLeod and Dr. David Richardson, both of the East India Company Madras Army, traveled from Moulmein on elephants, horses, and in the caravans of traders, to the present-day regions of the Shan States in Burma, northern Thailand, and Sipsong Panna in China. As the first Europeans to officially visit the region, they experienced some extraordinary social and cultural encounters. McLeod and Richardson had been in action in the first Anglo-Burmese War (1824-6) and had experience of other missions in Burma and Siam. They were fluent in Burmese and had a basic knowledge of Tai. They wrote superbly of their journeys and diplomatic exchanges. Their journals are published here in full, with detailed notes, for the first time. The richness of their narratives, their records of scientific, social, and cultural detail, their engaging insights, and some prejudices, make this engrossing reading for the enthusiast of travel and adventure literature. More than this, it is an essential new resource for scholars of many kinds-historians, anthropologists, geographers, and botanists, to name a few. Grabowsky and Turton provide an analytical commentary on the journals, and on the conditions and contexts of their writing and subsequent use. The authors set the information in the journals in the context of indigenous Tai language sources. They also present completely new research on the British settlement in the Tenasserim Provinces of peninsular Burma, along with the biographies of McLeod and Richardson, who appear, for the first time, as three-dimensional individuals. This volume is a state-of-the-art example of how to make archival material like these journals, which are among the finest of the period, accessible to a broad audience. Volker Grabowsky is professor of South East Asian history at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitut Munster. Andrew Turton is reader in anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Download or read book Catalogue of the European Manuscripts in the Oriental and India Office Collections of The British Library written by British Library. Oriental and India Office Collections and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European manuscripts of the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library constitute the world's largest collection of Western manuscripts relating to India and South Asia. They comprise about 300 collectons of private papers of British statesmen, soldiers, administrators, scholars, explores, missionaries, businessmen and others, and some 3000 smaller deposits containing documents of historical importance or curiosity. This catalogue provides a complete summary of the Collections' holdings of European manuscripts.

Download or read book Beyond Counter insurgency written by Sanjib Baruah and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been a significant reorientation in India's policy towards its Northeast region. Yet, Indian policy thinking has been insulated from the virtual intellectual revolution in the last one decade to study armed civil conflicts and ways to manage, resolve, and transform them. This volume lays emphasis on the term 'rethinking' and offers new ways of understanding the conflicts, and of ways to resolve them. The chapters discuss wide-ranging issues which include the multilayered nature of the conflict in the Northeast, and how democratic politics and the world of armed rebellions intersect in complex ways in this region. An analysis of the Naga war and its nation-building project is discussed. How the Northeast figures in postcolonial India's national imagination, how Assamese society engages with the term 'terrorist', and how state-society conflicts are muted in Mizoram have been argued. The role of ideas in conflict transformation, and an alternative vision of development in Mizoram have been argued. The role of ideas in conflict transformation, and an alternative vision of development in Arunachal Pradesh have also been discussed.