Seditious histories
Subtitle: contesting Thai and Southeast Asian pasts
By: Craig J. Reynolds.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Thailand -- Historiography; Thailand -- Civilization; Southeast Asia -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A new look at old Southeast Asia; title: Paradigms of the premodern state; title: Mr. Kulap and purloined documents; title: A seditious poem and its history; title: Feudalism as a trope for the past; title: Engendering Thai historical writing; title: Religious historical writing in early Bangkok; title: Buddhist cosmography in Thai intellectual history; title: A Thai-Buddhist defense of polygamy; title: Thai manual knowledge : theory and practice; title: National identity and cultural nationalism.