Author: Pridi Banomyong
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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Pridi Banomyong (1900-83) was one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century Thailand. At the age of just twenty-seven, he started the movement which led to the 1932 revolution against Thailand's absolute monarchy. Through the 1930s, he introduced a wide range of reforms in law, local administration, economic policy, and foreign affairs. During the Second World War, he formed the Seri Thai resistance movement against the Japanese occupation. After the war, he served briefly as prime minister and became deeply involved in the politics of the Asian region during decolonization. From 1947 onwards, Pridi was opposed by US-backed militarists who seized power by coup, murdered his associates, overturned many of his liberal reforms, and established dictatorial rule. In 1949 he fled into exile and never returned. Pridi by Pridi contains nineteen selections from Pridi's writings, speeches, and interviews which focus on his personal background and his active political career from 1932 to 1949. They include a new translation of the "outline economic plan" of 1932, which still excites controversy today. They also include first-ever English translations of Pridi's most important writings about the 1932 revolution, the Seri Thai movement, the monarchy, and his contemporaries.
Author: Pridi Banomyong
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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Pridi Banomyong (1900-83) was one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century Thailand. At the age of just twenty-seven, he started the movement which led to the 1932 revolution against Thailand's absolute monarchy. Through the 1930s, he introduced a wide range of reforms in law, local administration, economic policy, and foreign affairs. During the Second World War, he formed the Seri Thai resistance movement against the Japanese occupation. After the war, he served briefly as prime minister and became deeply involved in the politics of the Asian region during decolonization. From 1947 onwards, Pridi was opposed by US-backed militarists who seized power by coup, murdered his associates, overturned many of his liberal reforms, and established dictatorial rule. In 1949 he fled into exile and never returned. Pridi by Pridi contains nineteen selections from Pridi's writings, speeches, and interviews which focus on his personal background and his active political career from 1932 to 1949. They include a new translation of the "outline economic plan" of 1932, which still excites controversy today. They also include first-ever English translations of Pridi's most important writings about the 1932 revolution, the Seri Thai movement, the monarchy, and his contemporaries.
Author: Vichitvong Na Pombhejara
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ISBN: 9789742601751
Category : Prime ministers
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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Author: Sulak Sivaraksa
Publisher: Lantern Books
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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This collection of essays concerns itself with the many facets of engaged Buddhism, from the very practical to the philosophical, that have expressed themselves throughout the history of Thailand in the life and work of Pridi Banomyong (1900-1983). Historian, religion scholar, and political analyst, Sulak Sivaraksa examines Banomyong's legacy and challenges contemporary Thais and people everywhere to consider their lives as worth more than the sum of material goods they own and instead discover a new, more spiritual, way of living in the world.
Author: ʻArun Wētsuwan
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Category : Prime ministers
Languages : th
Pages : 259
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On life and political activities of Pridi Banomyong, 1900-1983, former prime minister of Thailand.
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Category : Prime ministers
Languages : en
Pages : 577
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Reminiscences by close associates of Pridi Banomyong, seventh Thai prime minister, Mar.- Aug. 1946; volume brought out on occasion of reception of his urn in Bangkok, May 7-11, 1986.
Author: Suphot Dāntrakūn
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Category : Prime ministers
Languages : th
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On the life and political activities of Pridi Banomyong, 1900-1983, former prime minister of Thailand.
Author: Pridi Banomyong
Publisher: Lantern Books
ISBN: 9789747449235
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 93
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Written following the 1932 coup that transformed Siam (Thailand) into a constitutional monarchy, this book is a manifesto for a comprehensive national socioeconomic plan that reflects Pridi Banomyong's visionary political insights and firm understanding of democracy. What is significant about this volume is that in its emphasis on political and economic sovereignty and distribution of productive power to local communities, it presents an alternative to the globalized capitalism that Western institutions have been pressuring South East Asian and other developing countries to follow.
Author: Sawai Sutthiphithak
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Category : Prime ministers
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Life and work of Pridi Banomyong, 1900-1983, Thai statesman.