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Narrative of a Residence at the Capital of the Kingdom of Siam

Author: Fred Arthur Neale

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Published: 1852

Total Pages: 296

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Creating Laos

Author: Søren Ivarsson

Publisher: NIAS Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 8776940233

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This book examines the process through which Laos came into existence under French colonial rule through to the end of World War II. Here, Laos's position at the intersection of two conflicting spatial layouts of "Thailand" and "Indochina" made its national form a particularly contested process. Rather than analyze this process in terms of administrative and political structures, the book discusses how a specific idea about a separate "Lao space" and its culture was formed.

Two Yankee Diplomats in 1830s Siam

Author: Edmund Roberts

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Published: 2002

Total Pages: 250

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This volume presents accounts of two 1830s American diplomatic missions to Siam, aimed at securing better trade terms than those obtained during the British Burney mission of 1826. The first American diplomatic mission to Siam was led by Edmund Roberts in 1822. He attempted to secure better terms than the British Burney mission of 1826 had obtained, but the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between His Majesty the Magnificent King of Siam, and the United States of America, which he concluded, was much the same, reducing the numerous arbitrary charges on trade to a single

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

Author: Terry E. Miller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-25

Total Pages: 1046

ISBN-13: 1351544209

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The first complete music reference for the region, this volume covers all the nations of modern Southeast Asia: Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines in thirty-five articles, written by twenty-seven expert contributors.