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Author : Patrick Jory
Release : 2021-01-07
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 243/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand by : Patrick Jory
Download or read book A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand written by Patrick Jory. This book was released on 2021-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative new social history of Thailand told through the lens of changing ideals of manners, civility and behaviour.
Author : Chris Baker
Release : 2022-04-07
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 838/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Thailand by : Chris Baker
Download or read book A History of Thailand written by Chris Baker. This book was released on 2022-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social, and cultural history.
Author : Charnvit Kasetsiri
Release : 2022-04-29
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 251/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thailand by : Charnvit Kasetsiri
Download or read book Thailand written by Charnvit Kasetsiri. This book was released on 2022-04-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As a historian, Charnvit Kasetsiri is not satisfied simply to have found an instructive angle from which to explore the mysteries in a modern experimental monarchy. His keen sense of time has filled his narrative with insights that only a few people could have identified. To me, that is a mark of one with a fine sense of what the past can mean. I thank him for the chance to see this mature and thoughtful Charnvit at work and commend this book to everyone who wants to understand Thailand better.” -- Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore “Charnvit makes clear in the final pages of Thailand: A Struggle for the Nation that he is not very sanguine about the country’s future. During Thailand’s democratic spring in 1974, the Thai constitution was changed to allow female succession. This apparent loosening of male prerogative had no effect on the reign change in 2016 when the designated male heir, Prince Vajiralongkorn, succeeded without challenge to become the tenth Bangkok king. Communism, long gone as the spectre that once haunted Thailand’s political order, has been replaced by another. The spectre now haunting Thailand is authoritarianism.” -- Craig J. Reynolds, Australian National University
Author : Chris Baker
Release : 2017-05-11
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 762/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Ayutthaya by : Chris Baker
Download or read book A History of Ayutthaya written by Chris Baker. This book was released on 2017-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full history of a great commercial and political center that rose in Asia over almost five centuries.
Author : Piotr Blumczynski
Release : 2022-11-30
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 134/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Languages of COVID-19 by : Piotr Blumczynski
Download or read book The Languages of COVID-19 written by Piotr Blumczynski. This book was released on 2022-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection advocates languages-based, translational research to be part of the partnerships and collaborations required to make sense of, and respond to, COVID-19 as one of the major global challenges of our time. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, this volume is bound by a common thread stressing the importance of linguistic sensitivity, (inter)cultural knowledge and translational mediation in the frontline response to COVID-19. Featuring contributors from around the world and reflecting on the language used to frame COVID-19 in diverse cultural contexts of the Global North and Global South, the book proposes that paying attention to the transmission of ideas, ideologies, narratives and history through processes of translation results in a broadening of social, cultural and medical understandings of COVID-19. Spanning nearly 20 signed and spoken languages, the volume argues that only in going beyond an Anglophone perspective can we better understand the cultural, social and political facets of the pandemic and, in turn, produce a comprehensive, efficient global response to disease management. This book will be of interest to scholars in translation and interpreting studies, modern languages, applied linguistics, cultural studies, Deaf Studies, intercultural communication and medical humanities.
