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AUA Language Center Thai Course:
Volume 1

J. Marvin Brown
Volume 1-3 include extensive grammar, dialogue, and conversations, as well as tone distinction, manipulation, and identification. This SEAP Language text has accompanying audio tapes, available separately from: The Language Resource Center, Tape Sales, Room G11, Noyes Lodge, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701. Tel:(607)255-8793 Fax:(607)255-6882 http://www.lrc.cornell.edu/sales
$18.95 (P)
 
Thailand
- Language Resources

J. Marvin Brown
Volumes 1-3 include extensive grammar, dialogue, and conversations, as well as tone distinction, manipulation, and identification. This SEAP Language text has accompanying audio tapes, available separately from: The Language Resource Center, Tape Sales, Room G11, Noyes Lodge, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701. Tel:(607)255-8793 Fax:(607)255-6882 http://www.lrc.cornell.edu/sales
$18.95 (P)
 
Thailand
- Language Resources

J. Marvin Brown
Volume 1-3 includes extensive grammar, dialog and conversations, as well as tone distinction, manipulation, and identification. 1974. This SEAP Language text has accompanying audio tapes, available separately from: The Language Resource Center, Tape Sales, Room G11, Noyes Lodge, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701. Tel:(607)255-8793 Fax:(607)255-6882 http://www.lrc.cornell.edu/sales
$18.95 (P)
 
Thailand
- Language Resources

J. Marvin Brown
With separate workbooks for reading practice and writing practice, these texts are useful tools for learning the Thai language. The reading section contains appendices on the history of the language while the writing section contains many practice problems and exercises. The books are comprehensive both in form and method--a necessity for any beginning student. This SEAP Language text has accompanying audio tapes, available separately from: The Language Resource Center, Tape Sales, Room G11, Noyes Lodge, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701. Tel:(607)255-8793 Fax:(607)255-6882 http://www.lrc.cornell.edu/sales
$11.95 (P)
 
Thailand
- Language Resources

J. Marvin Brown
With separate workbooks for reading practice and writing practice, these texts are useful tools for learning the Thai language. The reading section contains appendices on the history of the language while the writing section contains many practice problems and exercises. The books are comprehensive both in form and method--a necessity for any beginning student. 1986. 99 pages. This SEAP Language text has accompanying audio tapes, available separately from: The Language Resource Center, Tape Sales, Room G11, Noyes Lodge, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701. Tel:(607)255-8793 Fax:(607)255-6882 http://www.lrc.cornell.edu/sales
$11.95 (P)
 
Thailand
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Neil A. Englehart
A broad reevaluation of Siam's political culture as it existed prior to King Chulalongkorn's administrative reforms in the nineteenth century. Englehart examines wide-ranging evidence to show that traditional Siamese government functioned more effectively and rationally than most scholars have acknowledged. 2001. 130 pages.
$18.95 (P)
 
Thailand

Fields from the Sea::
Chinese Junk Trade with Siam During the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Jennifer Cushman
This pioneering work allows glimpses into a little-studied topic. Extremely well researched and well documented, this study explores Chinese junk trade with Siam over two centuries. Trade between the two nations was carried out with great success since the Chinese viewed (and justified) it as an extension of domestic trade. Thus, this topic is not only fascinating as a subject within itself but is significant in considering China's economic development, the implementation of commercial policies by the two nations, and ideas of trade in the east and southeast of Asia. 1993. 216 pages. Illustrations, maps.
$20.95 (P)
 
Thailand

In the Land of Lady White Blood:
Southern Thailand and the Meaning of History

Lorraine M. Gesick
An investigation engaged with the local history of Southern Thailand, this book displays an impressive knowledge of the region's language and culture. Its methodology will also interest historians of other parts of Southeast Asia. This monograph examines--through manuscripts preserved from the seventeenth century to the present--the historical sensibilities and mindset of rural southern Thailand. Its focus upon the particular necessarily comments upon the general study of history. Sensitive to cultural interpretation and rigorous in textual study, the text argues against a single historical truth. The way in which different communities imagine and conceive of the past yields many, varied histories. Thus, narrative is an important theme: the stories that history, culture, art, and language tell and the author's own story of her quest for history. 1995. 106 pages. Illustrations, maps.
$15.95 (P)
 
Thailand

Benedict R. O'G. Anderson, ed.
A representative sampling of the short fiction produced by a single generation of Thai writers during the American era in Thailand, those two decades spanning from the mid-1950s into the mid-1970s, when US involvement in the economy and politics of the nation ignited rapid social change and awakened a group of thoughtful new authors. 1985. 2nd printing 1991. 303 pages. All copies of In the Mirror were slightly damaged in transit from the printer in Thailand. They are in usable condition, and are sold as is. No replacements or refunds allowed.
$15.95 (P)
 
Thailand

Interpreting Development:
Capitalism, Democracy, and the Middle Class in Thailand

John Girling
A study of rapid capitalist development in Thailand and the rivalries generated not only between the older bureaucracy and the newer, rising entrepreneurial elite, but also between urban and rural entrepreneurs. Girling analyzes the significance of these developments for the political future of Thailand. Intertwining theoretical considerations with empirical evidence and observations, Girling studies the main factors which contributed to the economic growth, evolution of state power, and emergence of civil society in Thailand and evaluates the relationship both between these factors and to society in general. He explores the classic problem of capitalism and democracy, the dangers and exhilaration of nationalist sentiment, the contradictions inherent in Thai development, and the rise of the middle class. His work is a fascinating reconsideration of problems that have faced many theorists. 1996. 95 pages.
$18.95 (P)
 
Thailand

David K., Wyatt, trans. and ed.
A new translation of the 1894 chronicle of this important kingdom, which sat astride the major trade routes linking northern Laos to the central Siam plains. Now a town in modern Thailand, Nan was once a powerful ancient principality that began to lose power and control in the late nineteenth century. In 1894, a high-ranking official of the Nan king composed a chronicle detailing the contemporary situation, the immediate background of the work's composition, the origins of the Nan River Valley as based on legend, the rituals and customs of the Nan, the moral duties of the ruler, royal genealogy, the power of spirits, and the history of the eras. An extremely fascinating portion of Thai history and culture. 1994. 158 pages. Maps.
$18.95 (P)
 
Thailand

B.J. Terwiel & Ranoo Wichasin , trans. & eds.
The ancient but not completely forgotten language of Ahom (part of a culture that once dominated the Brahmaputra Valley in India) has been marked by a lack of competent critical and scholarly study. The present authors aim to correct this: in their work they include a useful introduction to the state of Ahom studies and about linguistic problems and possibilities. The three primary texts studied are presented in their Ahom characters, in transliteration, and in translation into Thai and English, and are the subjects of both literary and historical interpretation. In the final section, the scholar J. C. Eade presents an essay entitled Astronomy in the Texts: Is there any Coherence? The relevant pages from the three original manuscripts that gave rise to the established texts are reproduced here as well. 170 pages. Illustrations
$20.95 (P)
 
Thailand

Robert B. Jones, Ruchira C. Mendiones & Craig J. Reynolds
Includes a Thai-English glossary of over 3,500 words.Revised edition 1976. 2nd printing 1994. 517 pages. (Oversized)
$23.95 (P)
 
Thailand
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Craig J. Reynolds
Using as a basis Jit Poumisak's The Real Face of Thai Feudalism Today (1957), Reynolds both writes Thai history and critiques the historiography relevant to that history. He is markedly concerned with epistemology and historiography (who writes history and what form it should take, questions of revision and rewriting). Exploring the problems of imperialism, feudalism, and the nature of power, Reynolds argues that comparisons between European and Thai premodern social formations can be useful in characterizing Thai social formation (especially the present one) as historical, contingent, and temporally bounded. 1987. 2nd printing 1994. 186 pages. Illustrations.
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Thailand

Thak CHALOEMTIARANA
In 1958, Marshal Sarit Thanarat became prime minister of Thailand following a bloodless coup. This book offers a comprehensive study of Sarit's paternalistic, militaristic regime, which laid the foundations for Thailand's support of the US military campaign in Southeast Asia. The analysis documents the ways in which Sarit shaped modern Thai politics, in part by rationalizing a symbiotic relationship between his own office and the Thai monarchy. This book was awarded the first Ohira Prize (Japan) in 1985 and translated into Japanese by Professor Tamada of Kyoto University in 1989.
$23.95 (P)
$46.95 (HC)