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Lords of Things : The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Peleggi, Maurizio
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.