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Crown & the Capitalists, The: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation border the incorporation of the regionFor distribution in Thailand only The Kingdom of Thailand, formerly Siam, has successfully transformed itself into a rival modern nation state over the last two centuries, despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia. Recent historiography has placed progressor lack thereoftoward Western style liberal democracy at the center of Thailands narrative, but that underestimates the importance of the colonial context. In