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Siam mapped : a history of the geo-body of a nation
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- Creator
- Thongchai Winichakul
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Paperback edition
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1997, ©1994
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 228 pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0824819748, 9780824819743
- OCLC
- ocm44002076
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.
- Introduction: The Presence of Nationhood -- The Two-Way Identification of Nationhood -- The Positive and Negative Identification of Thainess -- Thai Studies -- Struggles for Interpretation -- Siam as a Cultural Construct -- Subject and Method -- Indigenous Space and Ancient Maps -- Sacred Topographies -- Imaginary Spatial Depiction: Ancient Maps -- The Coexistence of Different Concepts of Space -- The Coming of a New Geography -- Two Earths, Same Space: The Advent of Modern Earth -- Breakthrough: Astronomy via Astrology -- Space in a New Mode: Modern Geography -- Space Encoded: The Modern Map -- Modality: Ambiguity and Displacement -- Boundary -- Western Boundary on the Western Frontier -- Clashes of Conceptions of Boundary -- The Nonbounded Kingdom