Chronicle traditions in Thai historiography -- Mainland powers on the Malay Peninsula -- Contextual arguments for the authenticity of the Ramkhamhaeng inscription -- Three Sukhothai oaths of allegiance -- Laws and social order in early Thailand -- Thai "Palatine Law" and Malacca -- Persian mission to Siam in the reign of King Narai -- Family politics in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Siam -- Siam and Laos 1767-1827 -- Education and the modernization of Thai society -- Interpreting the history of the fifth reign -- King Chulalongkorn the Great

1. Thailand -- History -- To 1782
2. Thailand -- History -- 1782-1945