Stock ID #180314 Lords of Things. The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image. MAURIZIO PELEGGI.

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

Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 2002. Stock ID #180314

Black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 232pp, notes, bibliography, index, inscription by the author to Professor Anthony Reid front free endpaper, paperback copy in very good condition.

Lords of Things offers a fascinating interpretation of modernity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion its self and public image in the early stages of globalization. It examines the westernized modes of consumption and self-presentation, the residential and representational architecture, and the public spectacles appropriated by the Bangkok court not as byproducts of institutional reformation initiated by modernizing sovereigns, but as practices and objects constitutive of the very identity of the royalty as a civilized and civilizing class. (Publisher's description.)

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