New Mandala

Over at Asia Sentinel political scientist and long-time Thailand watcher Kevin Hewison has an important summary article.  Readers new to Kevin’s work will find this 2007 interview has many details on his previous outputs and ongoing interests.

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Tamara Loos. Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. pp. x + 212.
Rare is the appearance of a newly published English-language monograph in Thai history, rarer still one that sets such a high standard of intellectual rigor and revisionist finesse. Tamara Loos’s Subject Siam puts forward the thesis [...]

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