Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation - Hardcover

Winichakul, Thongchai

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824813375 ISBN 13: 9780824813376

Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, 1994

Synopsis

228 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

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Review:

In telling his story of the encounters ... Thongchai generates a number of remarkably original insights into the dynamics of Siamese/Thai history in the 19th and 20th centuries. With Siam Mapped Thongchai presents an exciting and fertile new approach to the emergence of modern nationhood and nationalism.-- "AAS Committee Citation"

A highly original and important study... A work where theory illumines history equally as history informs theory.-- "American Historical Review"

An excellent and well-researched example of how concepts of the space of a nation change over time and effect how a nation develops.-- "Chicago Anthropology Exchange"

Synopsis:

This 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 that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0824813375
• ISBN 13: 9780824813376
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280