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Author : Cornelius Beach Bradley
Release : 1909
Genre : Inscriptions, Thai
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Book Synopsis The Oldest Known Writing in Siamese by : Cornelius Beach Bradley
Download or read book The Oldest Known Writing in Siamese written by Cornelius Beach Bradley. This book was released on 1909. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cornelius Beach Bradley
Release : 2020-12-08
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Oldest Known Writing in Siamese: The Inscription of Phra Ram Khamhæng of Sukhothai by : Cornelius Beach Bradley
Download or read book The Oldest Known Writing in Siamese: The Inscription of Phra Ram Khamhæng of Sukhothai written by Cornelius Beach Bradley. This book was released on 2020-12-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oldest Known Writing in Siamese: The Inscription of Phra Ram Khamhæng of Sukhothai is a translation of the Ram Khamhaeng Inscription provided by an American English-language scholar Cornelius Beach Bradley. The original inscription is generally credited to Ram Khamhaeng, the king of the Sukhothai Kingdom. The inscription is dated back to 1292 and deals with the personal history of the king, the praise of his deeds and the reach of his kingdom, and the rules and customs established in Sukhotai.
Author : Cornelius Beach BRADLEY
Release : 1909
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Book Synopsis The Oldest Known Writing in Siamese. The Inscription of Phra Ram Khamhæng of Sukhothai, 1293 A.D. [With Introduction, Translation, and Notes.] By Cornelius Beach Bradley. (Reprinted from the Journal of the Siam Society, March, 1909.) [With a Plate.]. by : Cornelius Beach BRADLEY
Download or read book The Oldest Known Writing in Siamese. The Inscription of Phra Ram Khamhæng of Sukhothai, 1293 A.D. [With Introduction, Translation, and Notes.] By Cornelius Beach Bradley. (Reprinted from the Journal of the Siam Society, March, 1909.) [With a Plate.]. written by Cornelius Beach BRADLEY. This book was released on 1909. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abbot Low Moffat
Release : 2019-06-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Mongkut, the King of Siam by : Abbot Low Moffat
Download or read book Mongkut, the King of Siam written by Abbot Low Moffat. This book was released on 2019-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an engaging, real-life portrait of one of the great Asian rulers of the nineteenth century, who set the course that preserved his country's independence and enabled it to remain the only country in Southeast Asia never to fall under European domination. It is not a conventional biography of King Mongkut or a history of his reign; rather, the author sketches the man in his many facets, furnishing a factual outline, but applying the color from the King's own writings—through which his personality and character shine so clearly—and from other contemporary sources. Many of these appear in English for the first time. As ruler and diplomat, as philosopher and scientist, as monk and head of a large family, Mongkut showed powers of mind and spirit extraordinary in any age. As here presented, he is even more remarkable than the caricature of him depicted in some recent popular accounts.
Author : Alfred Habegger
Release : 2014-06-30
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Masked by : Alfred Habegger
Download or read book Masked written by Alfred Habegger. This book was released on 2014-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brave British widow goes to Siam and—by dint of her principled and indomitable character—inspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and absolute rule: this appealing legend first took shape after the Civil War when Anna Leonowens came to America from Bangkok and succeeded in becoming a celebrity author and lecturer. Three decades after her death, in the 1940s and 1950s, the story would be transformed into a powerful Western myth by Margaret Landon’s best-selling book Anna and the King of Siam and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The King and I. But who was Leonowens and why did her story take hold? Although it has been known for some time that she was of Anglo-Indian parentage and that her tales about the Siamese court are unreliable, not until now, with the publication of Masked, has there been a deeply researched account of her extraordinary life. Alfred Habegger, an award-winning biographer, draws on the archives of five continents and recent Thai-language scholarship to disclose the complex person behind the mask and the troubling facts behind the myth. He also ponders the curious fit between Leonowens’s compelling fabrications and the New World’s innocent dreams—in particular the dream that democracy can be spread through quick and easy interventions. Exploring the full historic complexity of what it once meant to pass as white, Masked pays close attention to Leonowens’s midlevel origins in British India, her education at a Bombay charity school for Eurasian children, her material and social milieu in Australia and Singapore, the stresses she endured in Bangkok as a working widow, the latent melancholy that often afflicted her, the problematic aspects of her self-invention, and the welcome she found in America, where a circle of elite New England abolitionists who knew nothing about Southeast Asia gave her their uncritical support. Her embellished story would again capture America’s imagination as World War II ended and a newly interventionist United States looked toward Asia. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Regional Special Interest Boosk, selected by the Public Library Reviewers
