Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of the Nation Short stories political demonstrations

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Presents a range of studies on the spread of religious thought and material culture in Asia

and the transformation of communist guerrillas into guardians of the state and their development of capitalist enterprises

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Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of the Nation Short stories political demonstrationsThis 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 identities 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