History of Thailand

Name: History of Thailand
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ISBN: 9780521016476

ISBN-10: 0521016479

ISBN-13: 9780521016476

Edition: 2005

Authors: Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit

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This lively, accessible book is the first new history of Thailand in English for two decades. Drawing on new Thai-language research, it ranges widely over political, economic, social, and cultural themes. Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree labour evolved into a rural society of smallholder peasants and an urban society populated mainly by migrants from Southern China. They trace how a Buddhist cosmography adapted to new ideas of time and space, and a traditional polity was transformed into a new nation-state under a strengthened monarchy. The authors cover the contests between urban nationalists, ambitious generals, communist rebels, business…

Book details

List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface


Abbreviations


Glossary


Chronology



Before Bangkok



The old order in transition, 1760s to 1860s



Reforms, 1850s to 1910s



Peasants, merchants, and officials, 1870s to 1930s



Nationalisms, 1910s to 1940s



The American era and development, 1940s to 1960s



Ideologies, 1940s to 1970s



Globalization and mass society, 1970s onwards



Politics, 1970s onwards


Postscript: the strong state and the well-being of the people


Notes


Reigns and prime ministers


Glossary of names


Readings


Index