Books and the Nation: The Making of Thailand's National Library.

From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: September 1, 2000| Author: JORY, PATRICK | Copyright information

The transformation of the Thai "Buddhist kingdom" into a "modern nation-state" in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is a well-trodden field in Thai studies. [1] Scholars have singled out for particular attention the creation of a number of key institutions which have become central to the modern Thai state. Among them, Tej Bunnag has described the setting up of a centralized system of territorial administration, the so-called thetsaphiban system, the basic structure...

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