A History of Siam: From the Earliest Times to the Year A.D. 1781 |
 W.A.R. Wood
ISBN: 1931541108
Written by a British consul living in Thailand, this is the first book in a western language on the country's history, based, almost entirely, on ancient Thai documentation. It covers the subject from the earliest history until the democratic reforms of...(read more) |
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A History of Thailand |
 Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit
ISBN: 0521759153
In A History of Thailand, 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...(read more) |
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Historical Dictionary of Thailand |
 Harold E. Smith
ISBN: 0810853965
(Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East) The second edition of the Dictionary of Thailand is more comprehensive than the first edition. It offers 64 new entries including biographies of 25 significant new persons. More than 60...(read more) |
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History of Siam in 1688 |
 Marcel LeBlanc
ISBN: 9749575296
Concerns the French intervention in Siam, 1685 - 1688 Translated, introduced, and annotated by Michael Smithies, well-known scholar of the period This book concerns the French intervention in Siam, 1685-1688, particularly the cataclysmic last year,...(read more) |
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History of Thailand: Ancient Era of Thailand |
 John McBrewster, Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome
ISBN: 6130000766
Prehistoric Thailand, Initial states of Thailand, Lavo, Peopling of Thailand, Thai people, Suwannaphum, Ayutthaya Kingdom, Singhanavati, Tambralinga, Srivijaya, Thonburi Kingdom, History of Thailand (1768?1932), History of Thailand (1932?1973), History...(read more) |
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Pen and Sail: Literature and History in Early Bangkok |
 Nidhi Eoseewong
ISBN: 974957592X
Nidhi Eoseewong is the most innovative, famed, and controversial Thai historian of his generation. This book founded his reputation and is the first of his major works to appear in English. On its publication in Thai, he was immediately hailed as...(read more) |
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River Kwai Railway: The Story of the Burma-Siam Railroad |
 Clifford Kinvig
ISBN: 1844860213
As rivers go there is nothing particular about the River Kwai. It is known less for its physical characteristics than for its association with the monumental struggle that took place along its eastern bank in 1942 and 1943 as a third of a million men...(read more) |
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Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation |
 Thongchai Winichakul
ISBN: 0824819748
This study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped demonstrates that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works...(read more) |
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Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand |
 Tamara Loos
ISBN: 0801443938
Unlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) shared a great deal in common with both colonized states and imperial powers: its sovereignty was qualified by...(read more) |
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Thailand (Places & History) |
 Giuliana Malpezzi
ISBN: 8854400580
The legacy of the ancient Kingdom of Siam, modern Thailand is a colourful natural paradise. Forest-clad mountain chains and luxuriant river valleys characterize the north, along the border with Laos and Myanmar. This area was the cradle of the Thai...(read more) |
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Thailand Condensed: 2,000 Years of History and Culture |
 Ellen London
ISBN: 9812615202
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Thailand The Worldly Kingdom |
 Maurizio Peleggi
ISBN: 1861893140
From the mythical tropical paradise in Alex Garland's "The Beach" to the infinitely darker world of sexual tourism in Michel Houellebecq's "Platform", Thailand has been cast as an exotic East Asian pleasure park in which Western...(read more) |
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Thailand's Political History: From the Fall of Ayutthaya in 1767 to Recent Times |
 B.J. Terwiel
ISBN: 9749863089
A comprehensive examination of Thailand's past that offers insights into the political history of the Siamese state. |
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Thailand: A Short History |
 D.K. Wyatt
ISBN: 0300084757
This highly acclaimed book, the standard history of Thailand for almost twenty years, has now been completely revised by the author. David Wyatt has also added new sections examining the social and economic changes that have transformed the country in...(read more) |
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Thailand: Political History and Buddhist Cultural Influence |
 Kanai Lai Hazra
ISBN: 8186921125
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