Pen And Sail: Literature And History in Early Bangkok including The History of Bangkok in the Chronicles of Ayutthaya

by Nithi Ieosiwong; Baker, Christopher John; Anderson, Benedict R. O'G; Reynolds, Craig J.

• ISBN13: 9789749575925
• ISBN10: 974957592X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-30
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

Nidhi Eoseewong is the most innovative, famed, and controversial Thai historian of his generation. This book founded his reputation and is the first of his major works to appear in English. On its publication 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.

Table of Contents

Editorial Foreword	vii
Publication History	x
Author's Preface	xi
Preface to the First Thai Edition (1982)	xii
1 Bourgeois Culture and Early Bangkok Literature	1	(152)
2 Sunthon Phu: Bourgeois Poet Laureate	153	(46)
3 On the Phetchaburi Version of the Mahachat	199	(28)
4 The World of Lady Nophamat	227	(28)
5 The Life of the Buddha and the Religious Movement of the Early Bangkok Period	255	(32)
6 The History of Bangkok in the Chronicles of Ayutthaya	287	(56)
Reigns	343	(1)
Glossary	344	(3)
Abbreviations	347	(2)
Bibliography	349	(11)
Afterword	360	(29)
Index	389