The balancing act: A history of modern Thailand
By Joseph J Wright.
Description
In the pre-dawn hours of 24 June 1932 a band of disgruntled Thai bureaucrats, with a small clique of army colonels supporting the, staged an unlikely coup against the government of the last absolute monarch of Thailand. Using bluff and deception, they called together a number of armored units and infantrymen at the center of Bangkok and declared a new government, a new regime to function in the name of the king but under the authority of a modern, democratic constitution: Rattamanoon in Thai. Thus was parliamentary government introduced to Thailand amid the conflicting ambitions of rising n...
ISBN(s)
9748206629, 9789748206622
