num_pages: 280
description: This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped challenges much that has been written on Thai history because it demonstrates convincingly that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic.
language: English
title: Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation
titlecomplete: Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation
genres: History, Geography, Asia, Anthropology, Nonfiction, Theory, Politics
ratings_count: 335
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies
publisher: University of Hawaii Press