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9789749575925

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9789749575925

  • ISBN10:

    974957592X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-01-30
  • Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $29.95

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

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