Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 1047 p. — ISBN 978-1-107-19076-4 Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history has been neglected. This book is the first study of Ayutthaya from its emergence in the thirteenth century until its fall. It offers a wide-ranging view of social,...
Fourth Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 405 p. Since it was first published in 2005, A History of Thailand has been hailed as an authoritative, lively and readable account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. From the early settlements in the Chao Phraya basin to today, Baker and Phongpaichit trace how a world of mandarin nobles and...
Third edition — Cambridge University Press, 2014 — xx; 323 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-42021-2 Covering the past three centuries of Thai history, this book reveals how a landscape of sparsely populated forest and jungle was transformed into villages and paddy fields, with a rural society of smallholder peasants and an urban society populated mainly by migrants from southern China. It...
Routledge, 2020. — 475 p. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand is a timely survey and assessment of the state of contemporary Thailand. While Thailand has changed much in the past decades, this handbook proposes that many of its problems have remained intact or even persistent, particularly problems related to domestic politics. It underlines emerging issues at this...
Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 2020. — 395 p. The prospects of the inevitable end of the Bhumibol era loomed large over 21st century Thailand. Events have now taken their course, and King Maha Vajiralongkorn has been crowned. The new King is beginning to make his presence felt, but in important ways Thailand is still in an interregnum: a time when the old order is dying but a new...
Routledge, 2020. — 229 p. How and why was it possible for a small state such as Thailand to challenge great powers France and Japan during the Second World War? Putting ontological security theory into dialogue with status seeking approaches, Charoenvattananukul uses a case study of Thailand in the early 1940s to interrogate the dynamics and logic of a small state foreign...
Silkworm Books, 2002. — 597 p. In a lively and engaging style, Dirk Van der Cruysse traces the history of European-Siamese relations, from the arrival of the Portuguese around the beginning of the 16th century followed by the Dutch, British, and French. Explorers, merchants, missionaries, and ambassadors came and went across the oceans, leaving behind vivid accounts of lengthy...
Routledge, 2022. — 278 p. Based on two decades of fieldwork, including over a hundred interviews with various political and economic actors at different social levels, as well as documentary and media analysis, this volume presents an account of the Buddhist monarchy in Thailand, offering a sociology of elites, an analysis of the economic influence of the Crown and an...
University of Michigan Center for South Asian Studies, 2020. — 144 p. This essay originated in an attempt to bring together the study of law and Thai history in a description of the transformation of Thailand during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as seen from a legal point of view. The resulting work is based for the most part upon those royal enactments from...
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009. — 203 p. This book is a useful summary of political events and conflicts in Thailand up to mid-2009. It does not deal with the Red Shirt protests in Bangkok in Bangkok in 2010, but it provides useful background for anyone seeking to understand these events. An initial chapter by Michael Montesano provides extremely useful detail on...
ISEAS Publishing, 2022. — 216 p. The book is a significant contribution to understanding the important yet shifting patterns of relationship between the monarchy and military in Thailand. It is widely known that the monarchy-military union has played crucial roles in politics throughout modern Thai history. This book: A Soldier King: Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of...
The University of Kent at Canterbury, 1990. — 111 p. It is more than four years now since I left the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT), and I cannot remember how many times friends, both Thai and British, urged me to write down something about my experiences during seven years in the jungle. I politely turned down their promptings, partly because I did not want to incriminate...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. — 543 p. A brave British widow goes to Siam and—by dint of her principled and indomitable character—inspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and absolute rule: this appealing legend first took shape after the Civil War when Anna Leonowens came to America from Bangkok and succeeded in becoming a celebrity author and lecturer. Three...
Hong Kong University Press, 2010. — 292 p. The book brings studies of modern Thai history and culture into dialogue with debates in comparative intellectual history, Asian cultural studies, and postcolonial studies. It takes Thai Studies in new directions through case studies of the cultural hybridity and ambivalences that have emerged from the manifold interactions between...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 282 p. Manners have long been a central concern of Thai society. Kings, aristocrats, prime ministers, monks, army generals, politicians, poets, novelists, journalists and teachers have produced a large corpus of literature that sets out models of appropriate behaviour. These include such things as how to stand, walk, sit, pay homage,...
National University of Singapore Press, 2013. — 368 p. At the heart of the ongoing armed conflict in southern Thailand is a fundamental disagreement about the history of relations between the Patani Malays and the Thai kingdom. While the Thai royalist-nationalist version of history regards Patani as part of that "since time immemorial," Patani Malay nationalists look back to a...
Routledge, 2018. — 184 p. Thailand’s politics has been contentious in recent years. With a military coup in 2006 and another in 2014, the country has moved from being a promising electoral democracy to a military dictatorship. Electoral politics was embraced enthusiastically by some groups, including those in rural areas of the north and northeast, but came to be feared by...
Singapore: National University of Singapore, 2004. — 147 p. Кунакорн Ваничвирун. Воображая Аюттаю: Недавнии трансформации в тайской коллективной идентичности прошлого (на англ. яз.) This study explores the transformation in Thai collective memory projected by the state based on the images of Ayutthaya presented in educational material during the last five decades. As the story...
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 224 p. Domestic and international development strategies often focus on private ownership as a crucial anchor for long-term investment; the security of property rights provides a foundation for capitalist expansion. In recent years, Thailand's policies have been hailed as a prime example of how granting formal land rights to poor farmers in...
University of Hawaii – Manoa, 2016. — 114 p. This paper will explore several important aspects of Ayutthaya's history and culture to demonstrate how each was influenced by regional developments that occurred before Ayutthaya's official founding. Emphasis will also be placed on the numerous interrelationships between these various cultural elements to illustrate how Ayutthaya's...
London: Zed Books, 2014 — ix; 238 p. — (Asian Arguments). — ISBN: 978-1-78360-059-5. Struggling to emerge from a despotic past, Thailand stands at a defining moment in its history. Scores have been killed on the streets of Bangkok. Freedom of speech is routinely denied. Democracy appears increasingly distant. Long dreaded by Thais, the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej is...
Greenwood, 2010. — xxi; 183 p. — (The Greenwood histories of the modern nations). — ISBN: 978-0-313-34091-8 The book provides a clear portrayal of Thailand's culture and society, and explains its significance in the history of human civilization, its strategic geographic location, and its attraction as a tourist destination. Introduction to Thailand. From Prehistory to Pre-Thai...
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012. — 365 p. This is a useful and welcome collection of essays, almost encyclopaedic, in examining the political, social, cultural and historical context of the dramatic political developments preceding and surrounding the May 2010 military crackdown. Although its publication comes almost two years after the event, some of the insights...
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, 2017. — 432 p. This book presents an economic history of Bangkok, the Central Region, the North, the South, and Northeastern Regions from the signing of the Bowring Treaty in 1855 to the present. Most research has focused on Bangkok as the centre of change affecting other regions and has neglected other regions that had an influence on Bangkok....
Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2021. — 182 p. Thai politics is driven by actors and actions of paradox such as anti-election movements for accountability or independent, partisan organizations. This lucidly written book uncovers the 'military-led civil affairs' that earn the armed forces the omnipotent role in Thai society. It enriches our understanding of the Thai military in...
Reaktion Books, 2007. — 256 pages.
Tourist brochures and travel guides depict Thailand as an exotic country with a rich cultural heritage, strong religious traditions, and a popular monarchy. Historians also contribute to Thailand’s international allure with chronicles of its unique historical and cultural continuity in comparison to the other southeast Asian countries, whose...
Tuttle Publishing, 2021. — 1294 p. — ISBN 978-0-8048-5121-3 Thailand is known for its picturesque beaches and famous temples, but there's much more to this popular holiday destination than many realize. A Brief History of Thailand offers an engaging look at the country's last 250 years--from coups and violent massacres to the invention of Pad Thai in the 1930's. Readers will...
Northern Illinois University, Center For Southeast Asian Studies, 1977. — x, 203 p. — (Special Report 16). This monograph is a history of the Dutch East India Company (the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or the VOC) in the Kingdom of Ayutthaya from its earliest contact with the Kingdom in 1604 until the end of the seventeenth century. Its intent, however, is to offer more...
2nd ed. — Scarecrow Press, 2005 — xxxix; 374 p. — (Historical dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East; no. 55) — ISBN: 0-8108-5396-5 In this volume, we have attempted to provide some glimpses of Thailand’s long history since the 13th century. Biographical sketches include those of former kings and the present king, who have been revered leaders of the kingdom, and of...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 186 p. Uneasy Military Encounters presents a historically and theoretically grounded political ethnography of the Thai military's counterinsurgency practices in the southern borderland, home to the greater part of the Malay-Muslim minority. Ruth Streicher argues that counterinsurgency practices mark the southern population as the racialized,...
State University of New York Press, 2021. — 307 p. Thailand's monarchy and military have dominated the narrative of the country's modern history, and their leadership is often accepted as evidence of a cultural preference for authoritarianism. Despite a long history of military coups that have upended the course of the country's democracy, however, Thailand's democratic history...
ISEAS Publishing, 1984. — 99 p. This compilation of biographical data on the Thai military officers in the National Administrative Reform Assembly (1976-1977), the National Legislative Assembly, and/or the Senate (1979 to the present) is meant to provide base-line data for further study of military intervention in Thai politics. It also provides the officers' social background,...
Vientiane, 1998. — 26 p. Author: unknown. Тайский гегемонизм (на тайск. и лаосск. яз.) Работа посвящена обзору, анализу и критике идеологии тайского регионального империализма - пан-таизма, его идейных истоков, генезиса и целей, в частности, исторических притязаний Таиланда на территории, принадлежащие ЛНДР.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997. — 411 p. Тийяванит Камала. Лесные воспоминания: Странствующее монашество в Таиланде XX века (на англ. яз.) Buddhist Traditions in Siam / Thailand. The Path to the Forest. Facing Fear. Overcoming Bodily Suffering. Battling Sexual Desire. Wandering and Hardship. Relations with Sangha Officials. Relations with Villagers. The Forest...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. — 336 p. Thanks to its active role in national politics, the market economy, and popular culture, the Thai crown remains both the country's dominant institution and one of the world's wealthiest monarchies. Puangchon Unchanam examines the reign of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej or Rama IX (1946–2016) and how the crown thrived by...
Bangkok: Workers Democracy Publishers, 2007 — 144 p. — ISBN: 974-88225-5-9 This book attempts a dangerous task. It attempts to analyse and sharply criticise contemporary Thai politics in a time of serious crisis. It deals with the Taksin crisis, the coup, the various sections of the elite, the Peoples Movement and the violence in the South. Many events are unfolding as I write....
University of Hawaii Press, 1978. — 391 p. Throughout his fifteen-year reign (1910-1925), King Vajiravudh, absolute monarch of Siam, attempted to foster a spirit of nationalism among the Thai, to unite the Thai people and make them proud of their land and their heritage. The earliest speeches of Vajiravudh as king abound in declarations of his intention of following in his...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. — 275 р. When a populist movement elected Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister of Thailand in 2001, many of the country’s urban elite dismissed the outcome as just another symptom of rural corruption, a traditional patronage system dominated by local strongmen pressuring their neighbors through political bullying and vote-buying. In...
Routledge, 2015. — 245 p. During the nineteenth century there was a huge increase in the level and types of gambling in Thailand. Taxes on gambling became a major source of state revenue, with the government establishing state-run lotteries and casinos in the first half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, over the same period, a strong anti-gambling discourse emerged within...
University of Hawaii Press, 1997. — 280 p. This unusual and intriguing 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 challenges much that has been written on Thai history because it demonstrates convincingly that the physical and political definition of Thailand on...
М.: Наука, 1973. — 320 с. В книге в сжатой форме излагается история Таиланда с древнейших времен до наших дней. Первобытнообщинный строй, возникновение первых государств, крупные государства эпохи средневековья, внутреннее развитие страны и борьба с европейской агрессией в новое время, своеобразие новейшего периода в развитии Таиланда и роль американского империализма во...
М.: Наука, 1973. — 320 с. В книге в сжатой форме излагается история Таиланда с древнейших времен до наших дней. Первобытнообщинный строй, возникновение первых государств, крупные государства эпохи средневековья, внутреннее развитие страны и борьба с европейской агрессией в новое время, своеобразие новейшего периода в развитии Таиланда и роль американского империализма во...
М.: Наука, 1973. — 320 с.
В книге в сжатой форме излагается история Таиланда с древнейших времен до наших дней. Первобытнообщинный строй, возникновение первых государств, крупные государства эпохи средневековья, внутреннее развитие страны и борьба с европейской агрессией в новое время, своеобразие новейшего периода в развитии Таиланда и роль американского империализма во...
М.: Наука — Издательство восточной литературы, 1973. — 320 с. В книге в сжатой форме излагается история Таиланда с древнейших времен до наших дней. Первобытнообщинный строй, возникновение первых государств, крупные государства эпохи средневековья, внутреннее развитие страны и борьба с европейской агрессией в новое время, своеобразие новейшего периода в развитии Таиланда и роль...
М.: Наука, 1981. — 224 с. Автор исследует особенности политической борьбы в Таиланде в первой половине 70-х годов, характеризуя этот период как этап буржуазной социальной революции, движущей силой которой выступала учащаяся (в основном студенческая) молодежь. Анализируются экономические и социально-политические причины подъема молодежного движения, дается характеристика основных...
М.: Наука, 1981. — 224 с. Автор исследует особенности политической борьбы в Таиланде в первой половине 70-х годов, характеризуя этот период как этап буржуазной социальной революции, движущей силой которой выступала учащаяся (в основном студенческая) молодежь. Анализируются экономические и социально-политические причины подъема молодежного движения, дается характеристика основных...
Москва: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1984. — 272 с. В книге исследуются проблемы социально-политического развития Таиланда на историческом материале, охватывающем период с конца XIX в (реформы 70-90-х годов) до 80-х годов XX в. Особое внимание авторы уделяют соотношению в общественном развитии Таиланда традиционных и современных, внешних и внутренних факторов.
Москва: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1984. — 272 с. В книге исследуются проблемы социально-политического развития Таиланда на историческом материале, охватывающем период с конца XIX в (реформы 70-90-х годов) до 80-х годов XX в. Особое внимание авторы уделяют соотношению в общественном развитии Таиланда традиционных и современных, внешних и внутренних факторов.
Москва: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства "Наука", 1983. — 152 с.
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В работе рассматриваются формирование и социальная эволюция интеллигенции в Таиланде (со времени ее зарождения в конце XIX в. до середины 70-х годов). Определяются социальные границы интеллигенции, характеризуются ее внутренняя структура, особенности ее...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 122 с. (на тайск. яз.) Тит Пхумисак (1930-1966) — тайский писатель, поэт, лингвист, историк и революционер. Chit Phumisak (also spelt Jit Poumisak; Thai: จิตร ภูมิศักดิ์; born 25 September 1930; killed 5 May 1966) was a Thai author, philologist, historian, poet and Communist. His most influential book was The Face of Thai Feudalism (โฉมหน้าศักดินาไทย,...
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