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Thailand: Economy and Politics
telling the story of the Palaung's flight from Burma and settlement in Thailand
specialises in Chinese oral literature and dialectology
but also of nineteenth‐century royal interaction with supernatural cults
Breeds of Empire: The ‘Invention’ of the Horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa 1500–1950 Development Thailand: Economy and PoliticsGreg Bankoff and Sandra Swart 2007, 272pp, 14x21. 5 cm, illus. Deals with the (colonial) introduction, invention and use of horses in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa. Explores the links between horses, colonialism, environment and self ascription across cultures. Unique SouthSouth historical perspective. Challenges conventional historiography and sets new paths in Animal Studies. Appeals to academics as well as to the broad horse reading public