A History of Thailand (Pocket)
avChris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker
ISBN: 9780521759151 - UTGIVEN: 200906In A History of Thailand, Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree labour evolved into a rural society of smallholder peasants and an urban society populated mainly by migrants from southern China. They trace how a Buddhist cosmography adapted to new ideas [...]
A History of Thailand (Pocket)
avChris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker
ISBN: 9781107420212 - UTGIVEN: 2014-06A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. This book explores how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree peasants was transformed and examines how the monarchy managed the foundation of a new nation-state at the turn of[...]
Thaksin (Häftad)
avPasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker
ISBN: 9789749511794 - UTGIVEN: 2009-12In the early 1990s, Thaksin Shinawatra came from nowhere to become a multi-billionaire in just four years. In 2001, he was elected prime minister on a single-minded promise to accelerate Thailand to first-world status through unrestrained capitalist growth. In 2009, over video link from exile in Dub[...]
The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen (Pocket)
avChris (TRN) Baker, Pasuk (TRN) Phongpaichit, Chris (TRN) Baker
ISBN: 9786162150845 - UTGIVEN: 2015-04"Khun Chang Khun Phaen" is an outstanding classic in the Thai language, an entertaining folk epic set amidst the social panorama of traditional Siam. Masterfully told in the style of an ancient saga, it is a spectacular love story rich in romance, adventure, violence, farce, and magic, and ending in[...]
The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen (Inbunden)
avChris (TRN) Baker, Pasuk (TRN) Phongpaichit, Muangsing (ILT) Janchai
ISBN: 9789749511985 - UTGIVEN: 2010-12Siam's folk epic of love, war, and tragedy. Khun Chang Khun Phaen is one of the most famous works of old Thai literature. The plot is a love story, set against a background of war, and ending in high tragedy. This folk epic was first developed in oral form for popular performance with lashings of ro[...]
