wyszukanych pozycji: 2
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Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand
ISBN: 9780801443930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Unlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) shared a great deal in common with both colonized states and imperial powers: its sovereignty was qualified by imperial nations while domestically its leaders pursued European colonial strategies of juridical control in the Muslim south. The creation of family law and courts in that region and in Siam proper most clearly manifests Siam's dualistic position. Demonstrating the centrality of gender relations, law, and Siam's Malay Muslims to the history of...
Unlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) shared a gr...
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Bones Around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur
ISBN: 9781501704635 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852 1935) served as Siam's first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam s political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based on rumors about fiscal corruption, sexual immorality, and political treason. In Bones around My Neck, Tamara Loos pursues the truth behind these rumors, which chased Prisdang out of Siam. Her book recounts the personal and political adventures of an unwitting provocateur who caused a... Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852 1935) served as Siam's first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam s political history, when its... |
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205,29 |