By shifting the focus from the metropolis to the secondary city of Chiang Mai, this study provides an alternative narrative of the formation of the modern Thai state that highlights the overlap between European, American, and Siamese interests.
By shifting the focus from the metropolis to the secondary city of Chiang Mai, this study provides an alternative narrative of the formation of the modern Thai state that highlights the overlap between European, American, and Siamese interests.
Taylor M. Easum is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana State University with research interests in Southeast Asian, urban, and colonial history. Recent publications include articles on contested urban networks, the construction of Thai and Lao ethnic identity, monuments and historical memory, and ongoing questions of urban heritage in Southeast Asia.
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Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Sources Introduction: Living in the City The Urban Space of Chiang Mai Organization of the Book 1 The City Founded: A Deep Urban History of Chiang Mai Urban Genesis in the Mainland The Foundation of the New City Center Hinterland Region Conclusion 2 The City Stabilized: The Kawila Restoration and Chiang Mai in the Nineteenth Century Chiang Mai Abandoned Chiang Mai Rebuilt The Nineteenth Century Logic(s) of Chiang Mai's Urban Space Conclusion 3 The Region Transformed: Forests and Foreigners and State Formation in Chiang Mai and The North Lanna's Second Golden Age Shifting the Balance Siamese State Formation in the North &-A Silent Revolution? Conclusion 4 The City Reshaped: Power and Urban Space in Micro-Colonial Chiang Mai Spaces of Power &-The Old Town Chiang Mai and the development of a Dual City? Spatial Transitions Conclusion 5 The New City and the New State: Chiang Mai's Sacred Space and Siam The Decline of Sacro-Spatial Legitimacy in the Chiang Mai State Khruba Siwichai the State and the Restoration of Sacred Space(s) Conclusion Conclusion: The Heart of the City Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Sources Introduction: Living in the City The Urban Space of Chiang Mai Organization of the Book 1 The City Founded: A Deep Urban History of Chiang Mai Urban Genesis in the Mainland The Foundation of the New City Center Hinterland Region Conclusion 2 The City Stabilized: The Kawila Restoration and Chiang Mai in the Nineteenth Century Chiang Mai Abandoned Chiang Mai Rebuilt The Nineteenth Century Logic(s) of Chiang Mai's Urban Space Conclusion 3 The Region Transformed: Forests and Foreigners and State Formation in Chiang Mai and The North Lanna's Second Golden Age Shifting the Balance Siamese State Formation in the North &-A Silent Revolution? Conclusion 4 The City Reshaped: Power and Urban Space in Micro-Colonial Chiang Mai Spaces of Power &-The Old Town Chiang Mai and the development of a Dual City? Spatial Transitions Conclusion 5 The New City and the New State: Chiang Mai's Sacred Space and Siam The Decline of Sacro-Spatial Legitimacy in the Chiang Mai State Khruba Siwichai the State and the Restoration of Sacred Space(s) Conclusion Conclusion: The Heart of the City Bibliography Index
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