Book Number: 21 713

Wright, Arnold and Oliver T. Breakspear

TWENTIETH CENTURY IMPRESSIONS OF SIAM:
Its History People, Commerce, and Resources

A scarce antiquarian book published in 1908 with a new preface by Bonnie Davies. This work has a wealth of information not found in other period publications in this form, particularly the abundance of historical photos of Chinese and western personalities: foreign experts and advisers working in various government departments reflecting King Chulalongkorn's effort to modernize the country; business men, lawyers, government officials, and military people. The topics covered by different experts are: the royal family, constitution and law, diplomatic and consular representatives, the army and navy, police and provincial gendarmerie, finance, royal survey work, health and hospitals, imports, exports, and shipping, rice, the teak industry, mines and mining administration, engineering, means of communications, ecclesiastical, the Siamese language, manners and customs, education, sport, Bangkok, the highways and sanitation of Bangkok, and the press. Reprint from 1808.

(Bangkok 1994)

ISBN 974-8495-00-7

302 pp., fully illus., 230 x 310 mm

50.- US-Dollar

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