Five Years in Siam from 1891 to 1896

SMYTH, H. Warington

Verlag: John Murray, London, 1898

Beschreibung

Two volumes, with 15 full-page plates, nine maps (four folding) and numerous illustrations in the text; in the original decorated cloth. An important book on late-nineteenth-century Thailand. Smyth spent some years in Thailand as director of the Department of Mines, and his well-illustrated account of the country, then under the rule of King Chulalongkorn, describes the prosperous last years free of colonial controls. 'Thailand presented a singular contrast to the rest of Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth century. Thai leaders followed policies that revealed a remarkable capacity to gain the greatest benefit from the new and intrusive element of European power' (Osborne, Southeast Asia). Within only a few years Thailand was to lose part of its country to French colonial aspirations, and in 1909 it lost four Malay states to the British. . Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5000845

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Five Years in Siam from 1891 to 1896

Verlag: John Murray, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1898

Einband: Hardcover