Editorial Reviews
Review
'As the most conceptual study of thailand yet it reaches a new level of sophistication.' BBC History Magazine
'Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit cover this ground with secure jusgement and great insight.' Times Literary Supplement
'In A History of Thailand, Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit, two respected Bangkok-based scholars, offer a lively, highly readable account of modern Thai history, the first such history in English for two decades.' Financial Times
Book Description
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 demonstrates how throughout the twentieth century, Thailand has been drawn into the international system, the American camp in the Cold War, the economic gambit of rising Japan, and more recently, the forces of globalization. The authors also survey the country's transformation accompanying massive social evolution over recent decades. (Control of the nation state is still contested between forces with a patriarchal belief in change from above, and advocates of democracy and liberal values.)
A History of Thailand
A History of Thailand,Chris Baker,Pasuk Phongpaichit,Cambridge University Press,0521016479,Asia - Southeast Asia,Economic conditions,History,History - General History,History: World,Thailand,World - General,ASIA,Asian / Middle Eastern history,History / World,World history
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