Seditious Histories

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.

• PrologueAcknowledgmentsSourcesStudying Southeast Asia1. A New Look at Old Southeast Asia2. Paradigms of the Premodern StateSeditious Histories of Siam3. Mr. Kulap and Purloined Documents4. A Seditious Poem and Its History5. Feudalism as a Trope for the Past6. Engendering Thai Historical WritingCultural Studies7. Religious Historical Writing in Early Bangkok8. Buddhist Cosmography in Thai Intellectual History9. A Thai-Buddhist Defense of Polygamy10. A Thai Manual Knowledge: Theory and PracticeThe Dialectics of Globalization11. National Identity and Cultural NationalismEpilogueBibliographyIndex

"As an Indologist and a folklorist, I am confident that this book is a masterpiece of Thai social history that will lead to the writing of 'seditious histories' of other Southeast Asian countries."