Download or read book Subject Siam written by Tamara Loos and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) shared a great deal in common with both colonized states and imperial powers: its sovereignty was qualified by imperial nations while domestically its leaders pursued European colonial strategies of juridical control in the Muslim south. The creation of family law and courts in that region and in Siam proper most clearly manifests Siam's dualistic position. Demonstrating the centrality of gender relations, law, and Siam's Malay Muslims to the history of modern Thailand, Subject Siam examines the structures and social history of jurisprudence to gain insight into Siam's unique position within Southeast Asian history. Tamara Loos elaborates on the processes of modernity through an in-depth study of hundreds of court cases involving polygyny, marriage, divorce, rape, and inheritance adjudicated between the 1850s and 1930s. Most important, this study of Siam offers a novel approach to the question of modernity precisely because Siam was not colonized yet was subject to transnational discourses and symbols of modernity. In Siam, Loos finds, the language of modernity was not associated with a foreign, colonial overlord, so it could be deployed both by elites who favored continuation of existing domestic hierarchies and by those advocating political and social change.

Download or read book Reports from Her Majesty s Embassies and Missions Abroad on the Subject of Consular Conventions written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Siam Repository written by Samuel John Smith and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twentieth Century Impressions of Siam written by Arnold Wright and published by London : Lloyds Greater Britain Publishing Company. This book was released on 1908 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Extra territoriality in Siam written by Nathabanja (Luang.) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Directory Chronicle of China Japan Straits Settlements Malaya Borneo Siam the Philippines Korea Indo China Netherlands Indies Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Siam Mapped written by Thongchai Winichakul and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped challenges much that has been written on Thai history because it demonstrates convincingly that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic.

Download or read book Siam s New Detectives written by Samson Lim and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual evidence is the sine qua non of the modern criminal process—from photographs and video to fingerprints and maps. Siam's New Detectives offers an analytical history of these visual tools as employed by the Thai police when investigating crime. Covering the period between the late nineteenth century and the end of the Cold War, the book provides both an extended overview of the development and evolution of modern police practices in Thailand, and a window into the role of the Thai police within a larger cultural system of knowledge production about crime, violence, and history. Based on a diverse set of primary sources—police reports, detective training manuals, trial records, newspaper stories, memoirs, archival documents, and hard-to-find crime fiction—the book makes two related arguments. First, the factuality of the visual evidence used in the criminal justice system stems as much from formal conventions—proper lighting in a crime scene photo, standardized markings on maps—as from the reality of what is being represented. Second, some images, once created, function as tools, helping the police produce truths about the criminal past. This generative power makes images such as crime scene maps useful as investigative aids but also means that scholars cannot analyze them simply in terms of mimetic accuracy or interpret them in isolation for deeper meaning. Understanding how modern legal systems operate requires an examination of the visual culture of the law, particularly the aesthetic rules that govern the generation and use of documentary evidence. By examining modern policing in terms of visual culture, Siam's New Detectives makes important methodological contributions. The book shows how a historical analysis of form can supplement the way many scholars have traditionally approached visual sources, as symbols requiring a close reading. By acknowledging the productive nature of images in addition to their symbolic functions, the book makes clear that policing is fundamentally an interactive, creative endeavor as much as a disciplinary one.

Download or read book The Directory and Chronicle for China Japan Corea Indo China Straits Settlements Malay States Siam Netherlands India Borneo the Philippines and Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Journal of the American Asiatic Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Uneasy Military Encounters written by Ruth Streicher and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uneasy Military Encounters presents a historically and theoretically grounded political ethnography of the Thai military's counterinsurgency practices in the southern borderland, home to the greater part of the Malay-Muslim minority. Ruth Streicher argues that counterinsurgency practices mark the southern population as the racialized, religious, and gendered other of the Thai, which contributes to producing Thailand as an imperial formation: a state formation based on essentialized difference between the Thai and their others. Through a genealogical approach, Uneasy Military Encounters addresses broad conceptual questions of imperial politics in a non-Western context: How can we understand imperial policing in a country that was never colonized? How is "Islam" constructed in a state that is officially secular and promotes Buddhist tolerance? What are the (historical) dynamics of imperial patriarchy in a context internationally known for its gender pluralism? The resulting ethnography excavates the imperial politics of concrete encounters between the military and the southern population in the ongoing conflict in southern Thailand.

Download or read book Record of the Relations Between Siam and Foreign Countries in the 17th Century written by Great Britain. India Office and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: