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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.

Pen and Sail: Literature and History in Early Bangkok

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

    Number of Pages: 408

    Non Fiction , History

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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.

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