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of citizens

and the importance of orality and memory in Thai Buddhist epistemology

to reveal the many uses of the Cambodian past(s)

he first charted the culture of the private world in these three Southeast Asian countries and together as a region

Crown & the Capitalists, The: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation border of citizensFor distribution in Thailand only The Kingdom of Thailand, formerly Siam, has successfully transformed itself into a rival modern nation state over the last two centuries, despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia. Recent historiography has placed progressor lack thereoftoward Western style liberal democracy at the center of Thailands narrative, but that underestimates the importance of the colonial context. In