The crown and the capitalists : the ethnic Chinese and the founding of the Thai nation /
Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand, or Siam, as it was formerly known, has succeeded in transforming itself into a rival modern nation-state over the last two centuries. Recent historiography has placed progress, or lack thereof, towa...
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| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Educating citizens : building a nation
- Publishing nations : the media and elite propaganda
- "Economic Thai-ification" : dismantling the crown and the capitalists
- The Great East Asia War : questioning and redefining the Thai nationalist narrative
- The Cold War.