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Title: Thailand: Economy and Politics by Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker, Phongpaichit Pasuk ISBN: 983560066X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent, readable review of Thai political hsitory
Comment: In the past, Thai history was written by noblemen and created an idyll of a virtuous past, filled with happy peasants living a simple life under the watchful eye of benevolent despots. Unfortunately, many Westerners followed in this tradition, although they (and Thai nobles) criticized more recent, military regimes. This book breaks out of that box and makes it clear that life has never been easy for Thai peasants and that upper classes have rarely been all that virtuous. The authors also show a much more diverse Thailand than the "homogeneity" that is popularly ascribed. In addition, they detail the corruption of recent decades that should make Americans (as well as Japanes and others) who abetted it ashamed of the role they've played in in supporting horrible regimes. An excellent volume that is revisionist in the most positive sense of the word.
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Title: Corruption and Democracy in Thailand by Pasuk Phongpaichit, Sungsidh Piriyarangsan ISBN: 9747100312 Publisher: Silkworm Books Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Political Change in Thailand: Democracy and Participation (Politics in Asia Series) by Kevin Hewison ISBN: 0415179718 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
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