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Pages: 499
Authors: Antonio L. Rappa
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-21 - Publisher: Routledge

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The making of modern Thailand is grounded in specific political institutions, Brahmanical tropes, and sacred Buddhist traditions stylized with Hindu rituals. Ov
The King and the Making of Modern Thailand
Language: en
Pages: 303
Authors: Antonio Rappa
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-21 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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The making of modern Thailand is grounded in specific political institutions, Brahmanical tropes, and sacred Buddhist traditions stylized with Hindu rituals. Ov
Woman between Two Kingdoms
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Leslie Castro-Woodhouse
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Woman between Two Kingdoms explores the story of Dara Rasami, one of 153 wives of King Chulalongkorn of Siam during the late nineteenth and early twentieth cent
The King Never Smiles
Language: en
Pages: 512
Authors: Paul M. Handley
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and is now the world's longest-serving mo
Amnesia
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Thailand's monarchy and military have dominated the narrative of the country's modern history, and their leadership is often accepted as evidence of a cultural