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French Wolf and the Siamese Lamb, The
[Buy it!] | Tuck, Patrick | USD 56.95
(Mon Jun 3 08:33:25 2024) | Abebooks | SEATE BOOKS | ISBN10: 9748496287, ISBN13: 9789748496283, [publisher: White Lotus Press, Bangkok] Softcover This book explains how narrowly Siam survived the French menace to her independence during the period of the European scramble for colonies. For half a century after arriving in Cochinchina in 1858, the French encroached on Siamese territory and interests in a variety of ways. By the 1890s, French colonialists, so influential in promoting French annexations in Africa and the Pacific, wanted to acquire the whole of Siam in order to create a "Greater Indochina" in imitation of British India. The integrity, the stability, and the very existence of the Siamese state were at stake. This study, based on a wide range of newly available French records, examines the changing aims and methods of French expansion. The author explains how French ambitions came to be frustrated by British diplomatic action. But he argues that the Siamese played an indispensable role in shaping the conditions that made British intervention effective.
[APO, AP, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2009]
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Women Aviators: From Amelia Earhart to Sally Ride, Making History in Air and Space
[Buy it!] | Bernard Marck | USD 11.29
(Mon Jun 3 08:33:24 2024) | AbebooksUK | AwesomeBooks | ISBN10: 208030108X, ISBN13: 9782080301086, [publisher: Flammarion] Hardcover Women Aviators: From Amelia Earhart to Sally Ride, Making History in Air and Space This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009] |
