Chapter 2. Informal Trade Areas, Borders, and Modern Economies

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To contextualise the region within its larger political and cultural framework, the area known to antiquity as “Usa-ka-né” and later as “Suwannaphoum” (both meaning The Golden Land), stretched as a series of interlinked kingdoms from northeastern India to the Mekong Delta. During the medieval period it was dominated, in turn, by rule from Sumatera and by Angkor Wat. From the early colonial period until the incorporation of northern Thailand into Siam to form Thailand in the post-World War II ...

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