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Author Aasen, Clarence T.

Title Architecture of Siam : a cultural history interpretation / Clarence Aasen
Published Kuala Lumpur ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description xix, 291 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Context and Early Cultural Conjunctions, c.6000 BC-AD 500 -- 3. Constructing the Local, c.AD 300-1300 -- 4. The Essential Tai: Transnational Ethnic Architecture, c.AD 500-1558 -- 5. The Ayuthayan Kingdom: From State to Empire, 1350-1767 -- 6. Architecture of Modernism and Nationalism, 1767-1932 -- 7. Outside the Celestial Domain: Chinese Architecture in Siam -- 8. Foreigners at the Siamese Gates -- 9. Architecture of Colonization, Migration, and Escape -- 10. Architecture at the Convergence of Cultural Differences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index
Subject Architecture and society -- Thailand.
Architecture -- Thailand.
LC no. 97003082
ISBN 9835600279