Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts

This collection of eleven essays by senior Asianist Craig Reynolds features debates about meaning in Southeast Asian and Thai history. He explores themes that have hitherto been treated superficially in Thai historical writing, including Siam's semicolonialism in the late nineteenth century, the concepts of militarism and masculinity, collective memory and dynastic succession, the relationship of manual knowledge to ethnoscience, and the dialectics of globalization. Other more familiar topics under Reynolds's microscope, treated with new material and approaches, include cultural nationalism and religious history.

Author: Craig J. Reynolds
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 03/06/2006
Pages: 382
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.08w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780295986104

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 63

About the Author

Craig J. Reynolds is a reader in the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. He is the author of Thai Radical Discourses and National Identity and Its Defenders: Thailand, 1939-1989.