Isbn: 9789744801708 - red vs yellow: volume 2: thailand's political awakening (2 résultats)

Hard bound. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : new. First Edition. This volume begins with the first Red Shirt protests against the coalition government led by Abhisit Vejjajiva in early 2009 and covers in-depth the large protests in March-April 2009, including the Red Shirts' storming of the ASEAN Summit venue in Pattaya, the Blue Shirt controversy and the bloody clashes during the crackdown of April 13 on the protests during the Songkran holidays. The book also describes the subsequent rise of the Red Shirt Movement to become a social mass movement. The relatively rare public appearances of the PAD in the same period are also covered, including the lavish celebrations accompanying the founding of their political party. Nick Nostitz continues to follow closely the present era of color movements in Thailand, in both text and photo. This volume resumes where the first volume of this series--'Thailand's Crisis of Identity'--ended. 224 pp., fully illus. in col., 1 map Size: 22 x 16 cm.…

Paperback. Etat : New. no dj. The second volume of Nostitz's "Red vs. Yellow" covers the protests of the Red Shirts against the Abhisit Vejajiva government in 2009, culminating in the Songkran riots in April 2009, the defeat and eventual transformation of the Red Shirt movement into a social mass movement by autumn 2009. Nick Nostitz has also covered the other issues of that period, such as the Red Shirt's petition to the king, the founding of the Yellow Shirt "New Politics Party" and he has followed the Red Shirts to their rural heartland. Book.…