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Seditious histories : contesting Thai and Southeast Asian pasts /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reynolds, Craig J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : Singapore : University of Washington Press ; In association with Singapore University Press, [2006]
Series:Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies.
Subjects:
Thailand > Historiography.
Thailand > Civilization.
Southeast Asia > Historiography.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • A new look at old Southeast Asia
  • Paradigms of the premodern state
  • Mr. Kulap and purloined documents
  • A seditious poem and its history
  • Feudalism as a trope for the past
  • Engendering Thai historical writing
  • Religious historical writing in early Bangkok
  • Buddhist cosmography in Thai intellectual history
  • A Thai-Buddhist defense of polygamy
  • Thai manual knowledge : theory and practice
  • National identity and cultural nationalism.