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Siam mapped : a history of the geo-body of a nation / Thongchai Winichakul.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thongchai Winichakul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cartography--Thailand--History.
- Cartography.
- Historical geography.
- History.
- Thailand--Historical geography.
- Thailand.
- Thailand--Maps.
- Genre:
- Maps.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 228 pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824819743
- 0824819748
- OCLC:
- 44002076
- Publisher Number:
- 99969429313
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