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Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation by Thongchai Winichakul Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 1997 ISBN-10: 0-8248-1974-8 / 0824819748 ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-1974-3 / 9780824819743 This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the nineteenth-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Fundamental to the author's analysis is the assumption that notions of national identity are discursively constructed an |