A History of Siam: From the Earliest Times to the Year A.D.1781, with a Supplement Dealing with More Recent Events - Paperback

by W. A. R. Wood (Author)

Written by a British consul living in Thailand, this is the first book in a western language on the country's history, based, almost entirely, on ancient Thai documentation. It covers the subject from the earliest history until the democratic reforms of the early 1930s.