Siam Mapped

Siam Mapped
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 0824819748
ISBN-13 : 9780824819743
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Book Synopsis Siam Mapped by : Thongchai Winichakul

Download or read book Siam Mapped written by Thongchai Winichakul and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-06-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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