Ebook: Pen and sail : literature and history in early Bangkok including the history of Bangkok in the chronicles of Ayutthaya
Author: Nithi ʻĪeosīwong., Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson, Nithi ʻĪeosīwong., Craig J. Reynolds, Christopher John Baker
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Silkworm Books
- City: Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Language: English
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"Nidhi Eoseewong is the most innovative, famed, and controversial Thai historian of his generation. This book founded his reputation. On its first appearance in Thai, he was immediately hailed as "a major historian, the most capable of the present era."" "Pen and Sail combines intellectual history and economic history. Nidhi argues that the emergence of a market economy in the early Bangkok era (1782-1855) was the driving force behind a major change in mentality and worldview seen in poetry, early prose works, biographies of the Buddha, scripts for chanting the Jataka tales, language primers, manuals of behavior, and revisions of the royal chronicles." "Nidhi aimed not only to rewrite Siam's nineteenth-century history, but to wrestle the study of history and literature away from the conservative old guard. This ambition provoked both passionate support and angry criticism."--BOOK JACKET.
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