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      A History of Thailand (Paperback)
                             by Chris Baker (Author), Pasuk Phongpaichit (Author)

       {xtypo_rounded2}{xtypo_dropcap}  I{/xtypo_dropcap}n A History of Thailand, Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree labour evolved into a rural society of smallholder peasants and an urban society populated mainly by migrants from southern China. They trace how a Buddhist cosmography adapted to new ideas of time and space, and a traditional polity was transformed into a new nation-state under a strengthened monarchy.{/xtypo_rounded2}