Siam mapped : a history of the geo-body of a nation

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This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the nineteenth-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Fundamental to the author's analysis is the assumption that notions of national identity are discursively constructed and therefore are subject to change. Here, modern Thailand is viewed as its territory and related values and practices, or what the author terms its geo-body." Thongchai Winichakul's compelling narrative explores the emergence of this new territorial entity by examining the influence of modern mapping techniques on Thai conceptions of nationhood. Before the late nineteenth century the Siamese understanding of the territory of a state precluded the delineation of boundaries in the modern sense. Overlapping or multiple sovereignties were common

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เลขหมู่

DS563.9 .T47 1995

ผู้จัดทำ

University of Hawaii Press, c1 : University of Hawaii Press, c1994.., 1995

ลักษณะวัสดุ

xvi, 228 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm

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English

ISBN/ISSN

9789747100563

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Asia

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หัวเรื่อง

the confrontation between modern and indigenous conceptions of boundary and sovereignty caused misun

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Statement of Responsibility

creating a sort of buffer corridor. As Europeans moved into the region in the nineteenth century

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