Demi democracy : the evolution of the Thai political system / Likhit Dhiraregin
Imprint
Singapore : Times Academic Press, 1992
Descript
xiii, 242 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Legacy of the past -- Sukhothai kingdom -- Ayuthaya Kingdom (1350-1767) -- Thonburi Kingdom (1767-1782) and Ratanakosin era (1782- ) -- Politics of reform -- Thai politics from June 24, 1932 to the coup of 1957 -- Despotic paternalism of field marshal Sarit Thanarat -- October 14, 1973 uprising and the October 6, 1976 Coup d'etat -- General Prem Tinasulanonda and the halfway democracy