Imperial amnesia
Subtitle: Britain, France and "the question of Siam"
By: Nigel J. Brailey
Series: History of international relations library -- 11; History of international relations, diplomacy, and intelligence -- v. 11
Publisher: Republic of Letters Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9789089790149
Subjects: Relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: King Chulalongkorn's 1897 European tour; title: 'Siam' and the 'scramble' for Southeast Asia; title: The 'Siam question'; title: The splendid isolation crisis and Siam, 1895-6; title: Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns and the Chakri reformation : domestic change in Siam, 1894-99; title: Charles Rivett-Carnac and the campaign to internationalize the Siam question; title: Survival : 'Siam' and the entente cordiale; title: Siam 'the land the west forgot', and the aftermath of the entente cordiale; title: Thailand, imperialism's 'missing link'.