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The Thai Village Economy in the Past. By Chattip Nartsupha. English Translation by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1999. Pp. viii, 131

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This charmingly old-fashioned little book was first published in Thai in 1984, and now appears in an elegant English translation. The two major intellectual influences that gave it birth are rather older, dating from the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. The first developed from the intersection of the academic pre-eminence of varieties of Marxist thinking about the “Third World” and the struggles of anticolonial peasant-based revolutionaries and produced a high age of romanticism about the Southeast Asian village and the unfortunate victims who inhabited them. The origins of the second are more uncertain, but probably represent, paradoxically, a Thai appropriation of those Western social-science constructions of Thai cultural uniqueness which were especially popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

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  • Elson, R. E., 2003. "The Thai Village Economy in the Past. By Chattip Nartsupha. English Translation by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1999. Pp. viii, 131," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 63(1), pages 265-266, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:63:y:2003:i:01:p:265-266_33
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