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A History of Thailand

von Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit

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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.… (mehr)
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Quite bad, considering the authors' previous books. This is an easy call for librarians and professors: definitely not essential and not a candidate for the college syllabus. (The recommended intro texts? You can't go wrong with David K Wyatt. Next, Charles Keyes and that Ingram fellow. And Paul Handley's bio of the current king might snag undergraduates too. For higher level students, look up Thongchai's Siam Unmapped)

There's no original research, neither is a historian, very little on the communist era and other interesting phenomena. Lots of sludge about the new middle class TV favorites and the like from the 1990's. Screeds about Americans that contradict Pasuk's earlier work on corruption. David Wyatt (Thailand: A Short History--[i]the[/i] essential text) devoted many more pages two decades ago to the origins of the Tai. Nothing that tells you how the Muslim South got in such a state today.

Strange, there are plenty of real historians that Cambridge could have turned to. It reminds me of a senior thesis by a student that started out with the best of intentions (the first few chapters, even if they don't deal with the first centuries of Siam (it's pretty much late 19th/20th century). But he or she got sidetracked. So much work, so many parties! So the rest gets written in a few sleepless yaa baa-fueled nights. Let's throw in stuff from the paper for cultural studies, here's some anti-US rants snagged from blogs. No time for footnotes or a bibliography! Maybe my advisor won't notice .. ( )
  Periodista | May 30, 2008 |
ปกสวยมาก อยากอ่านจัง^^ ( )
  Nakla | Oct 27, 2007 |
A history of Thailand has thus succeeded in the exceedingly difficult task of meeting the publisher's demand to write a book `accessible to a wide readership', but which at the same time will be essential reading for serious students of Thai history.
hinzugefügt von eromsted | bearbeitenJournal of Southeast Asian Studies, Patrick Jory (Jun 1, 2007)
 
This in-depth overview of Thai history . . . is written in a clear, incisive manner that brings together the many different facets of Thai history and gives a clear explanation of its spectacular growth in the last three decades.
hinzugefügt von sgump | bearbeitenSoutheast Review of Asian Studies, Daniel A. Métraux (Dec 1, 2006)
 

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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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