Tamara Loos is currently writing a social history of Siam through the eyes of a reluctantly rebellious prince, Prisdang Jumsai (1852-1935). His perspective on this crucial moment in Siam's history-when that country, at once, escaped imperial control and transformed into an absolutist state-provid...
Tamara Loos is currently writing a social history of Siam through the eyes of a reluctantly rebellious prince, Prisdang Jumsai (1852-1935). His perspective on this crucial moment in Siam's history-when that country, at once, escaped imperial control and transformed into an absolutist state-provides a dagger-to-the-heart critique of the construction of royal cultural authority while simultaneously revealing the centrality of narrative and emotions to history.