Using Jit Poumisak's The Real Face of Thai Feudalism Today (1957), Reynolds both rewrites Thai history and critiques relevant historiography. Discussing imperialism, feudalism, and the nature of power, Reynolds argues that comparisons between European and Thai premodern societies reveal Thai social formations to be "historical, contingent, and temporally bounded."
- ISBN10 0877277028
- ISBN13 9780877277026
- Publish Date 1 January 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cornell University Press
- Imprint Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 186
- Language English