The American Historical Review · 1995 · 1.9K citations · 0 references
Social SciencesHistoryHuman GeographyCultural GeographyHistorical GeographyPolitical GeographyGeopoliticsModernization In AsiaNationalism In AsiaSoutheast Asian HistoryTerritorial NationalismArchaeology Of Southeast AsiaGeo-political NationalismHistoriography Of AsiaTerritorial MappingTerritorialization Of The NationThai History
This 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 that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic.