208–28, reprinted in Studies in Thai History, pp. See especially ‘Family politics in nineteenth-century Thailand’, JSEAH, Vol. Wyatt and Alexander Woodside (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Southeast Asian Studies, 1982), esp. Moral Order and the Question of Change, eds David K. See David Carr, Time, Narrative, and History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986). John Smail, ‘On the possibility of an autonomous history of modern Southeast Asia’, JSEAH, Vol. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. One of the values of so using it here is that it both serves to highlight some of the qualities of the current historiography of the period and stimulates thinking towards a richer and more appreciative reading of the period of history to which it refers. The imagery of the ‘last stand’ is not conventionally used in the usual emplotment of Southeast Asian history, especially in the nineteenth century, but it could be so employed. The ‘last stand’ is a romantic and symbolic gesture: it is perhaps brave and gallant, but in no way could it reverse the irresistible historical tide against which it ‘stood’. Its associations are implicitly defensive, and it vaguely suggests hopelessness and perhaps foolishness. ‘The last stand’ naturally conjures up images reminiscent of General George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
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