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9789749480502 | Silkworm Books, February 28, 2007, cover price $15.95
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9789745240537 | Orchid Pr, December 30, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This is the first English translation of an important study of the records of early Spanish and Portuguese missionaries and adventurers, which comprise one of the earliest surviving first hand accounts of the Khmers and of Angkor, and the sole records of Western visitors, four hundred years prior to the arrival of the French in Indo-
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9789835600685 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 9, 2006), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Old Bangkok traces the history of one of Asia's most fascinating cities.
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9789749575857 | Silkworm Books, October 30, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Thailand is usually closely associated with Buddhism, but since 1998 the country has been one of the observer members of the Islamic Conference Organization, and senior figures in the present and previous governments have been Muslim.
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9789749575291 | Silkworm Books, February 1, 2004, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: This book concerns the French intervention in Siam, 1685-1688, particularly the cataclysmic last year, during which Phetracha, the usurper and future king, held the ailing King Narai prisoner until his death.
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9789745240315 | Orchid Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A series of portraits of the people who comprise the mosaic of a typical north-eastern Thai village, this text describes such characters as the half-Chinese, the fortune teller, Miss cotton bud, native entrepreneur and bar boy.
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9789745240278 | Orchid Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $17.00
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9789747551617 | Silkworm Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $19.95
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9789745240056 | Orchid Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: The coup d'etat of 18 May 1688 in the Siamese Versailles at Lopburi led to the establishment of the last Ayutthayan dynasty.
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9789748225685 | River Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Fascinating study of relationship between King Narai of Siam and Pope Clement IX.
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9789747551587 | Silkworm Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This account of Kosa Panâs journal describes in great detail the arrival in Brest in 1686 of the first full Siamese embassy to reach France.
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9780070417960, titled "Handbook of Petroleum Refining Processes" | 2nd edition (McGraw-Hill, October 1, 1996), cover price $105.00 | also contains Handbook of Petroleum Refining Processes, Siam and the West, 1500 to 1700
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9780070417960, titled "Handbook of Petroleum Refining Processes" | 2nd edition (McGraw-Hill, October 1, 1996), cover price $105.00 | also contains Handbook of Petroleum Refining Processes, Siam and the West, 1500 to 1700
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9789747551570 | Silkworm Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $34.95
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9789004113466 | Brill Academic Pub, June 1, 2001, cover price $188.00 | About this edition: The first part of this study covers the technical, economic and site constraints of the famous ancient Khmer monuments, as well as the architectural concepts and decoration of the structures.
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9789747100952 | Silkworm Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $17.95
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9789747100716 | Silkworm Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Initially seeking converts and trade, the French presence in 17th-century Siam turned into a classic colonial adventure, with troops sent to occupy, by force if necessary, the most important ports of Bangkok and Mergui.
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9789747100457 | Reprint edition (Silkworm Books, June 1, 1999), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Alexander Hamilton was one of very few persons to come to Siam in the 18th century and leave an account of his stay.
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9789747100303 | Reprint edition (Silkworm Books, June 1, 1999), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Memories of a French civil servant during his tenure in Thailand.
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9789747100518 | Silkworm Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The Chevalier de Chaumont was the devout and unbending ambassador of Louis XIV to King Narai of Siam in 1685, and the Abbé de Choisy, famous for his gambling debts and transvestite exploits, was his unlikely coadjutant.
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9789835600401 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Of the numerous cultural sites in Cambodia, the best known by far is Angkor.
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9789835600289 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 30, 1998, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: South-East Asia has a considerable number of ancient cultural sites which are increasingly visited and appreciated by overseas travellers.
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9789676530837 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This collection of the written impressions of Siam (now Thailand) by overseas residents and visitors to the country focusses on the relationships between the Siamese Kings and the various Westerners who came to trade, not only in goods, but also in souls.
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9789676530707 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 8, 1996, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Mainland South-East Asia has a considerable number of ancient cultural centers which are increasingly visited and appreciated by overseas travellers.
Product Description: This lively account of the 1685-1686 French mission to Siam, which aimed to convert King Narai to Catholicism, examines Abbe de Choisy's travels and experiences. Choisy's account of the embassy in Siam, in the form of a daily journal addressed to a friend, is an acknowledged classic of French travel writing...read more
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9789676530264 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: This lively account of the 1685-1686 French mission to Siam, which aimed to convert King Narai to Catholicism, examines Abbe de Choisy's travels and experiences.
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9780195889673 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Dealing in turn with the major palaces of the different countries in Southeast Asia, Dumarçay covers both their architectural forms and the court ceremonials to which they were adapted.
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