Author: Baker, Christopher John ; & Pasuk Phongpaichit
Title: A History of Thailand
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2005). reprint. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xviii,301 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents : Before Bangkok -- The old order in transition, 1760s to 1860s --Reforms, 1850s to 1910s -- Peasants, merchants, and officials, 1870s to 19 30s -- Nationalisms, 1910s to 1940s -- The American Era and development, 1 9 40s to 1960s -- Ideologies, 1940s to 1970s -- Globalization and mass society, 1970s onwards -- Politics, 1970s onwards. ["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 politicians, and social movements to control the nation-state and redefine its purpose. They describe the dramatic changes wrought by a booming economy, globalization, and the evolution of mass society" - Publisher's description].

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