B. J. Terwiel. Thailand’s Political History: From the Fall of Ayutthaya to Recent Times. Bangkok: River Books, 2005 

  1. Backdrop: Society during the Late-Ayutthaya Period

  2. Tumult and Reform (1767-1782)

  3. Innovation in the Guise of Orthodoxy (1782-1809)

  4. Trade and Poetry (1809-1824)

  5. Economic Development (1824-1851)

  6. The Beginning of Westernization (1851-1868)

 7. The Regent, New Siam and Chulalongkorn (1868-1883)

 8. Humiliation and the Path to Autocracy (1883-1910)

 9. Nationalism, and the Reorganization of the Bureaucracy (1910-1925)

 10. Restoration, Revolt, and the Rise of the Military (1925-1945)

 11. Thailand after 1945

 12. Concluding Remarks