books.google.co.in - This lively, accessible book is the first new history of Thailand in English for two decades. Drawing on new Thai-language research, it ranges widely over political, economic, social, and cultural themes. Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree labour evolved...http://books.google.co.in/books/about/A_History_of_Thailand.html?id=oFGwJJ21zx8C&q=traditional&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA History of Thailand
