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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2014
Print publication year:
2014
Online ISBN:
9781139656993

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A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. This book explores how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree peasants was transformed and examines how the monarchy managed the foundation of a new nation-state at the turn of the twentieth century. The authors capture the clashes between various groups in their attempts to take control of the nation-state in the twentieth century. They track Thailand's economic changes through an economic boom, globalisation and the evolution of mass society. This edition sheds light on Thailand's recent political, social and economic developments, covering the coup of 2006, the violent street politics of May 2010, and the landmark election of 2011 and its aftermath. It shows how in Thailand today, the monarchy, the military, business and new mass movements are players in a complex conflict over the nature and future of the country's democracy.

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Contents

Readings
1: Before Bangkok
Breazeale, Kennon (ed.), From Japan to Arabia: Ayutthaya’s Maritime Relations with Asia (Bangkok: Foundation for the Promotion of Social Sciences and Humanities Textbooks Project, 1999).
Condominas, Georges, From Lawa to Mon, from Saa’ to Thai: Historical and Anthropological Aspects of Southeast Asian Social Spaces (Canberra: Australian National University, 1990).
Gesick, Lorraine, ‘The rise and fall of King Taksin: a drama of Buddhist kingship’, in Gesick, (ed.), Centers, Symbols and Hierarchies: Essays on the Classical States of Southeast Asia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983).
Higham, Charles and Thosarat, Rachanie, Early Thailand: From Prehistory to Sukhothai (Bangkok: River Books, 2012).
Kasetsiri, Charnvit, The Rise of Ayudhya: A History of Siam in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1976).
Lieberman, David, Strange Parallels: Volume I, Integration of the Mainland: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800 to 1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
O’Connor, Richard A., ‘Agricultural change and ethnic succession in Southeast Asian states: a case for regional anthropology’, Journal of Asian Studies 54, 4 (1995).
O’Connor, Richard A., ‘A regional explanation of the Tai müang as a city state’, in Herman Hansen, Mogens (ed.), A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures (Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, 2000).
Wyatt, David K., Thailand: A Short History (rev. edn, Yale University Press, 2003).
2: The old order in transition, 1760s to 1860s
Englehart, Neil A., Culture and Power in Traditional Siamese Government (Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 2001).
Grabowsky, Volker (ed.), Regions and National Integration in Thailand, 1892–1992 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995).
Lysa, Hong, Thailand in the Nineteenth Century: Evolution of the Economy and Society (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1984).
Johnston, D. B., ‘Bandit, nakleng, and peasant in rural Thai society’, Contributions to Asian Studies XV (1980).
Koizumi, Junko, ‘From a water buffalo to a human being: women and the family in Siamese history’, in Watson Andaya, Barbara (ed.), Other Pasts: Women, Gender and History in Early Modern Southeast Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i at Mânao, 2000).
Reynolds, Craig J., ‘Buddhist cosmography in Thai history, with special reference to nineteenth century culture change’, Journal of Asian Studies 35, 2 (1976).
Skinner, William G., Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1957).
Turton, Andrew, ‘Thai institutions of slavery’, in Watson, J. L. (ed.), Asian and African Systems of Slavery (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980).
3: Reforms, 1850s to 1910s
Bunnag, Tej, The Provincial Administration of Siam, 1892–1915 (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1977).
Kesboonchu Mead, Kullada, The Rise and Decline of Thai Absolutism (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004).
Loos, Tamara, Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2006).
Murashima, Eiji, ‘The origins of modern official state ideology in Thailand’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 19, 1 (1988).
Peleggi, M., Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy’s Modern Image (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002).
Streckfuss, David, ‘The mixed colonial legacy in Siam: origins of Thai racialist thought, 1890–1910’, in Sears, L. (ed.), Autonomous Histories: Particular Truths (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1993).
Tuck, Patrick, The French Wolf and the Siamese Lamb: The French Threat to Siamese Independence, 1858–1907 (Bangkok: White Lotus, 1995).
Winichakul, Thongchai, Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994).
Winichakul, Thongchai, ‘The quest for “siwilai”: a geographical discourse of civilizational thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Siam’, Journal of Asian Studies 59, 3 (2000).
4: Peasants, merchants, and officials, 1870s to 1930s
Askew, Mark, Bangkok: Place, Practice and Representation (London and New York: Routledge, 2002).
Barmé, Scot, Woman, Man, Bangkok: Love, Sex and Popular Culture in Thailand (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).
Brown, Ian G., The Elite and the Economy in Siam, c. 1890–1920 (Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1988).
Ingram, J. C., Economic Change in Thailand, 1850–1970 (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1971).
Nartsupha, Chatthip, The Thai Village Economy in the Past, tr. Baker, Chris and Phongpaichit, Pasuk (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1999).
Phongpaichit, Pasuk and Baker, Chris, Thailand: Economy and Politics (2nd edn, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Suehiro, Akira, Capital Accumulation in Thailand, 1855–1985 (Tokyo: Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, 1989).
Wyatt, David K., The Politics of Reform in Thailand: Education in the Reign of King Chulalongkorn (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1969).
5: Nationalisms, 1910s to 1940s
Banomyong, Pridi, Pridi by Pridi: Selected Writings on Life, Politics, and Economy, tr. Baker, Chris and Phongpaichit, Pasuk (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2000).
Barmé, Scot, Luang Wichit Wathakan and the Creation of a Thai Identity (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1993).
Batson, Benjamin A., The End of the Absolute Monarchy in Siam (Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1984).
Greene, Stephen L. W., Absolute Dreams: Thai Government under Rama VI, 1910–1925 (Bangkok: White Lotus, 1999).
Haseman, J. B., The Thai Resistance Movement during World War II (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2002).
Numnonda, Thamsook, Thailand and the Japanese Presence, 1941–45 (Singapore: ISEAS, 1977).
Reynolds, Craig (ed.), National Identity and Its Defenders (2nd edn, Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2002).
Reynolds, E. B., Thailand and Japan’s Southern Advance, 1940–1945 (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1994).
Suwannathat-Pian, Kobkua, Thailand’s Durable Premier: Phibun through Three Decades, 1932–1957 (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995).
6: The American era and development, 1940s to 1960s
Chaloemtiarana, Thak, Thailand: The Politics of Despotic Paternalism (Bangkok: Social Science Association of Thailand, Thai Khadi Institute, Thammasat University, 1979); revised edition (Ithaca: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2007).
Fineman, D., A Special Relationship: The United States and Military Government in Thailand, 1947–1956 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997).
Hewison, K., Bankers and Bureaucrats: Capital and the Role of the State in Thailand(New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asian Studies, 1989).
Hirsch, P., Development Dilemmas in Rural Thailand (Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1990).
Molle, F. and Srijantr, Thippawal, Thailand’s Rice Bowl: Perspectives on Agricultural and Social Change in the Chao Phraya Delta (Bangkok: White Lotus, 2003).
Muscat, R., The Fifth Tiger: A Study of Thai Development Policy (New York: M. E. Sharpe and United Nations University Press, 1994).
7: Ideologies, 1940s to 1970s
Kerdphol, Saiyud, The Struggle for Thailand: Counter-Insurgency, 1965–1985 (Bangkok: S. Research Center, 1986).
Morell, D. and Samudavanija, Chai-Anan, Political Conflict in Thailand: Reform, Reaction, Revolution (Cambridge, Mass.: Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain, 1982).
Tejapira, Kasian, Commodifying Marxism: The Formation of Modern Thai Radical Culture, 1927–1958 (Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2001).
Winichakul, Thongchai, ‘Remembering/silencing the traumatic past: the ambivalent memories of the October 1976 massacre in Bangkok’, in Tanabe, Shigeharu and Keyes, Charles F. (eds), Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002).
8: Globalization and mass society, 1970s onwards
Arghiros, D., Democracy, Development and Decentralization in Provincial Thailand (Richmond: Curzon, 2001).
Brown, Andrew, Labour Politics and the State in Industrializing Thailand (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004).
Connors, M. K., Democracy and National Identity in Thailand (New York and London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).
Laothamatas, Anek, Business Associations and the New Political Economy of Thailand: From Bureaucratic Polity to Liberal Corporatism (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1992).
Mills, M. B., Thai Women in the Global Labour Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 1999).
Missingham, Bruce D., The Assembly of the Poor in Thailand: From Local Struggles to National Protest Movement (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2003).
Tanabe, Shigeharu and Keyes, C. F. (eds), Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002).
Walker, Andrew, Thailand’s Political Peasants: Power in the Modern Rural Economy (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012).
9: A Political society, 1970s onwards
Callahan, W. A., Imagining Democracy: Reading ‘The Events of May’ in Thailand (Singapore: ISEAS, 1998).
Connors, Michael K. and Hewison, Kevin (eds), ‘Thailand’s “Good Coup”: The Fall of Thaksin, the Military, and Democracy’, special issue of Journal of Contemporary Asia 38, 1 (February 2008).
Handley, Paul, The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
Hewison, Kevin (ed.), Political Change in Thailand: Democracy and Participation (London and New York: Routledge, 1997).
Laothamatas, Anek, ‘A tale of two democracies: conflicting perceptions of elections and democracy in Thailand’, in Taylor, R. H. (ed.), The Politics of Elections in Southeast Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
McCargo, D., Chamlong Srimuang and the New Thai Politics (London: Hurst, 1997).
McCargo, D. (ed.), Reforming Thai Politics (Copenhagen: NIAS, 2002).
McCargo, Duncan, ‘Network monarchy and legitimacy crises in Thailand’, Pacific Review 18, 4 (2005).
McVey, Ruth (ed.), Money and Power in Provincial Thailand (Copenhagen: NIAS, 2000).
Phongpaichit, Pasuk and Baker, Chris, Thaksin (2nd ed. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2004).
Tejapira, Kasian, ‘Post-crisis economic impasse and political recovery in Thailand: the resurgence of economic nationalism’, Critical Asian Studies 34, 3 (2002).
Thabchumphon, Naruemon and McCargo, Duncan, ‘Urbanized villagers in the 2010 Thai Redshirt protests’, Asian Survey 51, 9 (2011).

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