Seditious Histories

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 semi-colonialism in the late nineteenth century, the concepts of militarism and masculinity, collective memory and dynastic succession,...

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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 semi-colonialism 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.

Prologue
Acknowledgments
Sources
Studying Southeast Asia
1. A New Look at Old Southeast Asia
2. Paradigms of the Premodern State
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Prologue
Acknowledgments
Sources
Studying Southeast Asia
1. A New Look at Old Southeast Asia
2. Paradigms of the Premodern State
Seditious Histories of Siam
3. Mr. Kulap and Purloined Documents
4. A Seditious Poem and Its History
5. Feudalism as a Trope for the Past
6. Engendering Thai Historical Writing
Cultural Studies
7. Religious Historical Writing in Early Bangkok
8. Buddhist Cosmography in Thai Intellectual History
9. A Thai-Buddhist Defense of Polygamy
10. A Thai Manual Knowledge: Theory and Practice
The Dialectics of Globalization
11. National Identity and Cultural Nationalism
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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