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Bones around My Neck : The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur /

P: rince Prisdang Chumsai (1852-1935) served as Siam's first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam's political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loos, Tamara Lynn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Staging secrets : Prince Prisdang avenges history
  • Gulf of Siam : Prisdang's star ascends
  • Europe : Prisdang's controversial diplomacy
  • Bangkok : the bones around Prisdang's neck
  • Colonial Southeast Asia : exilic journey
  • British Ceylon and India : the prince priest
  • Bangkok : home without quarter
  • Afterlife : the uses of Prince Prisdang.