ReadingsBefore BangkokBreazeale, 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, Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia (Bangkok: River Books, 2002).
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).
Richard, A. O’Connor, , ‘A regional explanation of the Tai müang as a city state’, in Hansen, Mogens Herman (ed.), A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures (Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, 2000).
David, K. Wyatt, , Thailand: A Short History (rev. edn, Yale University Press, 2003).
The Old Order in Transition, 1760s to 1860sEnglehart, 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 Andaya, Barbara Watson (ed.), Other Pasts: Women, Gender and History in Early Modern Southeast Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i, 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 J. Watson, L. (ed.), Asian and African Systems of Slavery (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980).
Reforms, 1850s to 1910sBunnag, Tej, The Provincial Administration of Siam, 1892–1915 (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1977).
Mead, Kullada Kesboonchu, 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).
Peasants, Merchants, and Officials, 1870s to 1930sAskew, 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).
Nationalisms: 1910s to 1940sBanomyong, 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).
Stephen, L. W.Greene, 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).
The American Era and Development, 1940s to 1960sChaloemtiarana, 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).
Ideologies: 1940s to 1970sKerdphol, 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).
Globalization and Mass Society, 1970s OnwardsArghiros, 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).
Politics, 1970s OnwardsCallahan, 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: The Business of Politics in Thailand (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).
