Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation

Type

Book

Authors

Thongchai Winichakul

ISBN 10

0824819748

ISBN 13

9780824819743

Tags

Asia, Historiography, Non-US Legal Systems, Historic, Asian, Comparative Politics, Europe, Government

Description

This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped challenges much that has been written on Thai history because it demonstrates convincingly that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic. - from Amzon

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