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

Winichakul, Thongchai

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824813375 ISBN 13: 9780824813376

Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1994

Synopsis

A prominent leader of the Thai student movement in the 1970s, now an academic (Southeast Asian history, U. of Wisconsin), explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the conception of the ancient kingdom of Siam into that of a modern nation, emphasizing the influence of new mapping techniques. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Thongchai Winichakul is currently assistant professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

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"

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0824813375
• ISBN 13: 9780824813376
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228