Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation
by Thongchai Winichakul
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages280 pages
ISBN
9780824819743
Published
1994
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 writ...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.