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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
Publication History
Author's Preface
Preface to the First Thai Edition (1982)
1. Bourgeois Culture and Early Bangkok Literature
2. Sunthon Phu: Bourgeois Poet Laureate
3. On the Phetchaburi Version of the Mahachat
4. The World of Landy Nophamat
5. The Life of the Buddha and the Religious Movement of the Early Bangkok Period
6. The History of Bangkok in the Chronicles of Ayutthaya
Reigns
Glossary
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Afterword
Index

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      Publisher: Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP
      Publication Date: 19/01/2006
      ISBN13: 9789749575925, 978-9749575925
      ISBN10: 974957592X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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
      Publication History
      Author's Preface
      Preface to the First Thai Edition (1982)
      1. Bourgeois Culture and Early Bangkok Literature
      2. Sunthon Phu: Bourgeois Poet Laureate
      3. On the Phetchaburi Version of the Mahachat
      4. The World of Landy Nophamat
      5. The Life of the Buddha and the Religious Movement of the Early Bangkok Period
      6. The History of Bangkok in the Chronicles of Ayutthaya
      Reigns
      Glossary
      Abbreviations
      Bibliography
      Afterword
      Index

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