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Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai And Southeast Asian Pasts
Craig J. Reynolds
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paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
This collection of eleven essays by senior Asianist Craig J. Reynolds features debates about meaning in Southeast Asian and Thai history. History is vital to collective memory, dynastic succession, and an individual's identification with place. Contemporary events can prick sensitivities about what a proper account of the ancient, premodern, or modern past should be. Craig Reynolds explores themes that have hitherto been treated superficially in Thai historical writing, including Siam's semi-colonialism in the late nineteenth century. The concepts of militarism and masculinity, the relationship of manual knowledge to ethnoscience, and the dialectics of globalization. Other more familiar topics under Reynolds' ... Read more
This collection of eleven essays by senior Asianist Craig J. Reynolds features debates about meaning in Southeast Asian and Thai history. History is vital to collective memory, dynastic succession, and an individual's identification with place. Contemporary events can prick sensitivities about what a proper account of the ancient, premodern, or modern past should be. Craig Reynolds explores themes that have hitherto been treated superficially in Thai historical writing, including Siam's semi-colonialism in the late nineteenth century. The concepts of militarism and masculinity, the relationship of manual knowledge to ethnoscience, and the dialectics of globalization. Other more familiar topics under Reynolds' ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
NUS Press Singapore
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971693350
SKU
V9789971693350
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About Craig J. Reynolds
Craig J. Reynolds teaches in the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.
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