ISBN:
0824824482
,
0824825586
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 232 S
,
Ill., Kt
,
24 cm
DDC:
959.3
Keywords:
Monarchy Thailand
;
Thailand Politics and government
;
Thailand Social conditions
;
Thailand
;
Monarchie
;
Thailand
;
Monarchie
;
Politik
;
Thailand
;
Monarchie
;
Imagepolitik
;
Thailand
;
Elite
;
Macht
;
Repräsentation
;
Royalismus
Description / Table of Contents:
Practices. Consumption modes, tastes, and identity of Siam's modernizing elite : changing modes of courtly consumption/westernized tastes, symbolic capital, and social identity/conspicuous consumption and royal absolutism. Presentation and representation of the royal self : refashioning civilization's accoutrements/presenting and representing the modern royal self/the image of Chulalongkorn in Siamese eyes -- Spaces. Suburban playgrounds : urban layout and palatial architecture from the first to the early fifth reign/building the modernizing elite's Bangkok/the suburbanization of courtly life. Field of glory : the absolute monarchy's grand theater Manqu/larger than life -- Spectacles. Refashioning the theater of power : first act/second act/third act/finale. On the world stage : Siam at international exhibitions. At the bazaar of exoticism/"the most despotic country in the civilized world". Bangkok on the Po. Epilogue : monarchy and memory
Note:
Includes bibliography (p. 207-224) and index
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