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Author: Tamara Loos
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2016-10
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 150170463X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Bones around My Neck, Tamara Loos recounts the personal and political adventures of Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852-1935), who served as Siam's first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam's political history.
Author: Tamara Loos
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2016-10-11
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1501706713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935) served as Siam's first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam’s political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based on rumors about fiscal corruption, sexual immorality, and political treason. In Bones around My Neck, Tamara Loos pursues the truth behind these rumors, which chased Prisdang out of Siam. Her book recounts the personal and political adventures of an unwitting provocateur who caused a commotion in every country he inhabited.Prisdang spent his first five years in exile from Siam living in disguise as a commoner and employee of the British Empire in colonial Southeast Asia. He then resurfaced in the 1890s in British Ceylon, where he was ordained as a Buddhist monk and became a widely respected abbot. Foreigners from around the world were drawn to this prince who had discarded wealth and royal status to lead the life of an ascetic. His fluency in English, royal blood, acute intellect, and charisma earned him importance in international diplomatic and Buddhist circles. Prisdang’s life journey reminds us of the complexities of the colonial encounter and the recalibrations it caused in local political cultures. His drama offers more than a story about Siamese politics: it also casts in high relief the subjective experience of global imperialism. Telling this history from the vantage point of a remarkable individual grounds and animates the historical abstractions of imperialism, Buddhist universalism, and the transformation of Siam into a modern state.
Author: Carla Killough McClafferty
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2001-10-12
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780374329082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating look at a scientific discovery that changed the world. Through an engaging text and numerous photographs and illustrations, Carla Killough McClafferty tells the history of the X-ray, from its discovery to its uses today. The story begins in 1895, when Wilhelm Roentgen accidentally saw the bones of his own hand while experimenting with cathode rays in his laboratory in Germany. His gift to science led to an amazing revolution in medicine, but not without a terrible price: it was only through many scientists' injuries and deaths that the dangers of X-ray exposure were revealed. McClafferty's chronicle also covers such things as the use of X-rays in examining fine art and identifying forgeries; the study of Egyptian mummies by X-rays; and X-ray use in everything from astronomy to paleontology, from airplane manufacture to the familiar dentist's office. McClafferty writes with an infectious excitement about her subject, with plenty of humor and respect for her intended young audience.
Author: Gabrielle Hamilton
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 140006872X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chef of New York's East Village Prune restaurant presents an unflinching account of her search for meaning and purpose in the food-central rural New Jersey home of her youth, marked by a first chicken kill, an international backpacking tour and the opening of a first restaurant. 50,000 first printing.
Author: Bob Barner
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 1996-09
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 0811808270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rendition of a traditional African American spiritual.
Author: J. Gordon Betts
Publisher:
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781947172807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tim D. White
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2005-11-08
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 0080488994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic scientists, anthropologists and researchers. The compact volume includes all the key information needed for identification purposes, including hundreds of photographs designed to show a maximum amount of anatomical information. - Features more than 500 color photographs and illustrations in a portable format; most in 1:1 ratio - Provides multiple views of every bone in the human body - Includes tips on identifying any human bone or tooth - Incorporates up-to-date references for further study
Author: Sarah Raughley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1534453563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An African tightrope walker who cannot die gets involved with a mysterious society that's convinced the world is ending and is drafted into the fight-to-the-death Tournament of Freaks, where she learns the terrible truth of who and what she really is"--
Author: Urmila Parlikar
Publisher: Harvard Health Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 53
ISBN-13: 193555512X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tamara Loos
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1501728253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) shared a great deal in common with both colonized states and imperial powers: its sovereignty was qualified by imperial nations while domestically its leaders pursued European colonial strategies of juridical control in the Muslim south. The creation of family law and courts in that region and in Siam proper most clearly manifests Siam's dualistic position. Demonstrating the centrality of gender relations, law, and Siam's Malay Muslims to the history of modern Thailand, Subject Siam examines the structures and social history of jurisprudence to gain insight into Siam's unique position within Southeast Asian history. Tamara Loos elaborates on the processes of modernity through an in-depth study of hundreds of court cases involving polygyny, marriage, divorce, rape, and inheritance adjudicated between the 1850s and 1930s. Most important, this study of Siam offers a novel approach to the question of modernity precisely because Siam was not colonized yet was subject to transnational discourses and symbols of modernity. In Siam, Loos finds, the language of modernity was not associated with a foreign, colonial overlord, so it could be deployed both by elites who favored continuation of existing domestic hierarchies and by those advocating political and social change.
