Most Thai people have since become acquainted with the maps through its use in Thongbai's atlas. Thongbai's atlas, also published by Thai Watana Panich, became an extremely popular textbook and was widely used by schools all over the country into the 21st century, with its 44th printing in 2014. In 1963, another version of the set was included in a student atlas illustrated by Thongbai Taengnoi, a school headteacher from Prachin Buri. It was sold as sets of posters, and became widely distributed among schools. In 1957, Phunphon Atsanachinda, a former Royal Survey Department officer and professor at Chiang Mai University, produced a similar set of maps (including the six Historical Atlas maps and the boundary history map) for Thai Watana Panich, one of the largest publishers of school textbooks, titled Bandai Prawattisat Thai Tae Boran ( บันไดประวัติศาสตร์ไทยแต่โบราณ, 'the steps of Thai history since antiquity'). Despite the changed political climate, the maps continued to live on thanks to their adaptation into school material. Thailand briefly annexed some of the territories thanks to its alliance with Japan during World War II, but had to renounce the claims after the war. The government distanced itself from the publication, but its distribution was then taken up by one of Phibun's aides. The map was distributed to schools and government offices, prompting protests from British and French diplomats. The History of Thailand's Boundary map (also referred to as Evolution of the Boundary of Thailand) was also first produced in 1935, though it was a different version that rose to prominence in 1940, amid the spread of the irridentist ideology of Pan-Thaiism promoted by the government of Plaek Phibunsongkhram (Phibun), with calls for the return of territory ceded to the French in 19. The Historical Atlas set of maps was first published by the Royal Thai Survey Department around 1935–1936. The Historical Atlas of Thailand series (six plates, left) and Map of the History of Thailand's Boundary (right), in the most widely recognized version depicted in Thongbai Taengnoi's atlas Publication history Several versions of the map exist, with differing accounting of the losses, but all include the cession of territory that is now Laos and Cambodia to the French in 1893, 19, and of the four Malay states to the British in 1909. The History of Thailand's Boundary is a single map, labelling territories lost by Thailand over several occasions, resulting in the country's present-day shape. The Historical Atlas is a set of six maps, the first depicting the southward movement of Tai/ Thai people from the Altai Mountains, (as was a popular theory at the time) and the others depicting the territories of the Thai kingdoms of Nanzhao (considered so under said theory), Sukhothai during the reign of King Ram Khamhaeng, Ayutthaya during Naresuan's, Thonburi during Taksin's and Rattanakosin during Rama I's. Later historians have disputed their historical accuracy, and see them as a political tool used to promote a Thai nationalistic view of history. They have been widely disseminated, especially through their inclusion in Thongbai Taengnoi's student atlas, a standard textbook used in Thai schools since 1963. The Historical Atlas of Thailand and Map of the History of Thailand's Boundary are a set of maps, first published in the 1930s, claiming to depict the historical extent of the boundaries of Thailand's predecessor states, and the territories it lost from the 19th century up to 1909, mostly to French and British imperialism.
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