Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai Duch Chronology

Chronology

It traces the origin of the regime’s ideology and investigates its attempts to fill the empty state coffers through missile technology sales and other unorthodox schemes

"This is a beautifully written and carefully argued account of care in the context of karma

Khatharya Um places these accounts in conversation with studies of comparative revolutions

Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai Duch ChronologyChiang Mai (literally, new city) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In Ghosts of the New City, Andrew Alan Johnson shows how the trauma of the crash, brought back vividly by the political crisis of 2006, haunts efforts to remake