Thailand's Political History: From the 13th Century to Recent Times - Couverture souple

Tewiel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9749863968 ISBN 13 : 9789749863961

Editeur : River Books, 2011

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

This collection of twenty-one essays in honour of Professor Barend Jan Terwiel deals with a wide range of issues spanning various periods of time, both modern and pre-modern, in countries throughout Southeast Asia. The contributors have been inspired to challenge and unravel established paradigms of this diverse region's history and in doing so propose new insights and interpretations. The volume first focuses on Thailand and Laos and includes contributions by distinguished historians such as Thongchai Winichakul and Barend Terwiel himself. It covers topics such as the rise of Thai nationalism, concepts of gender and ethnicity and the role of magic and religion in contemporary society. The second part widens the perspective looking at issues such as the relationship between myth and nation in Vietnam, Buddhism and political legitimisation in Burma and the role of Europeans in the shaping of the region's history.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Barend Jan Terwiel was born in the Netherlands in 1941. His first visit to Thailand was in 1962. During the early 70s he spent one rainy season in a Thai monastery as a Buddhist monk. From that period dates his first book, Monks and Magic, which has been reprinted many times. For more than twenty years he taught Thai history at the Australian National University. During that time he wrote more than a dozen books and about a hundred articles on the history and culture of the Thais and Tai-speaking peoples in Assam and Burma. Prof. Dr. Volker Grabowsky is Professor of Thai Language and Culture (Thai Studies) at the Asia-Africa-Institute of the University of Hamburg. He is also head of the institute's Southeast Asia Department. He specialises in the history and culture of Tai peoples in mainland Southeast Asia and Southwest China.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: River Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9749863968
• ISBN 13: 9789749863961
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328