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Drawing Siam
History图绘暹罗
(usa) Thongchai Venetian Chagong
How did the pre-modern "Kingdom of Siam" become a modern nation-state like "Thailand"? How did the so-called "Thainess" come to be? What is Thailand's "sense of country"? What decisive role did geography and cartography play in the history of Thailand in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? In this classic work of Southeast Asian studies and frontier studies, historian Thongchai Venitchakorn answers these questions. He proposed that the old local spatial concept was replaced by the new Western geographical discourse, and concepts such as borders, sovereignty, and edges were gradually accepted by people. It was during this change that Thailand's "geo-organism" was gradually shaped. This book breaks through the previous paradigm of nation-state research and retells this period of history from a unique perspective.
How did the pre-modern "Kingdom of Siam" become a modern nation-state like "Thailand"? How did the so-called "Thainess" come to be? What is Thailand's "sense of country"? What decisive role did geography and cartography play in the history of Thailand in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? In this classic work of Southeast Asian studies and frontier studies, historian Thongchai Venitchakorn answers these questions. He proposed that the old local spatial concept was replaced by the new Western geographical discourse, and concepts such as borders, sovereignty, and edges were gradually accepted by people. It was during this change that Thailand's "geo-organism" was gradually shaped. This book breaks through the previous paradigm of nation-state research and retells this period of history from a unique perspective.