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History of Thailand

King Narai received French ambassador Alexandre, Chevalier de Chaumont, and his mission, 1685

History of Sukhothai

• Siamese History Prior to the Founding of Ayuddhyā, by Damrong Rajanubhab (1919) (start transcription)
• The Oldest Known Writing in Siamese: The Inscription of Phra Ram Khamhæng of Sukhothai, 1293 A.D., by Cornelius Beach Bradley (1909)
• The Origins of the Sukhodaya Dynasty, by George Cœdès (1921)
• The Origins of the Sukhodaya Script, by George Cœdès & Jean Burnay (1928) (start transcription)

History of Ayutthaya

• A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies (1690)
• A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam, by Simon de La Loubère (1693) (start transcription)
• A Relation of the Voyage to Siam, Performed by Six Jesuits Sent by the French King, to the Indies and China in the Year 1685, by Guy Tachard (1688) (transcription project)
• Burmese Invasions of Siam, Translated From the Hmannan Yazawin Dawgyi, by Thien Subindu (1908) (start transcription)
• Description of the Kingdom of Siam, by Jeremias van Vliet (1910) (start transcription)
• English Intercourse With Siam in the Seventeenth Century, by John Anderson (1890) (start transcription)
• Events in Ayuddhya From Chulasakaraj 686–966, by Oskar Frankfurter (1909) (start transcription)
  • Notes on the Late Dr. Frankfurter's Translation of the Pongsawadan of Luang Prasöt, by William Alfred Rae Wood (1925) (start transcription)
• Historical Account of Siam in the 17th Century, by Jeremias van Vliet (1938) (start transcription)
  • A Critical Analysis of Van Vliet's Historical Account Siam in the 17th Century, by Francis Henry Giles (1938) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• History of the Kingdom of Siam and of the Revolutions That Have Caused the Overthrow of the Empire up to A.D. 1770, by François-Henri Turpin, translated by Basil Osborn Cartwright (1908) (transcription project)
• Intercourse Between Burma and Siam as Recorded in Hmannan Yazawindawgyi, by Thien Subindu (1911) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4)
• Memoirs of the Count de Forbin, Commodore in the Navy of France and Knight of the Order of St. Lewis, by Claude de Forbin (1731) (start transcription)
• Religious Intercourse Between Ceylon and Siam in the Eighteenth Century, by Paul Pieris (1908) (start transcription)
• Siamese Documents of the Seventeenth Century, by George Cœdès (1921) (start transcription)
• Siamese Missions to Ceylon in the 18th Century, by Oskar Frankfurter (1907)
• Siam in 1688, by Oskar Frankfurter (1908) (transcription project)
• The Foundation of Ayuthia, by Damrong Rajanubhab (1904)
• The History of Japan, etc, Together With a Description of the Kingdom of Siam, by Engelbert Kaempfer, translated by Johann Caspar Scheuchzer (1727) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• The Statement of Khun Luang Ha Wat, by Vivadhanajaya (1935) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, the Portuguese, by Fernão Mendes Pinto (1891) (start transcription)

History of Rattanakosin

• A Narrative of Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam and the Malay Peninsula, by John Bradle & John A. Lawson (1876) (start transcription)
• An Oriental Land of the Free; or, Life and Mission Work Among the Laos of Siam, Burma, China and Indo-China, by John Haskell Freeman (start transcription)
• A Voyage Round the World, Including an Embassy to Muscat and Siam in 1835, 1836, and 1837, by William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger (1838) (transcription project)
• Birmah, Siam, and Anam, by Josiah Conder (1826) (start transcription)
• Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of Siam, by Foreign Office (1894) (start transcription)
• In the Far East: A Narrative of Exploration and Adventure in Cochin-China, Cambodia, Laos, and Siam, by William Henry Davenport Adams (1879) (start transcription)
• Journal of an Embassy From the Governor-General of India to the Courts of Siam and Cochin China, by John Crawfurd (1830) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• Narrative of a Residence at the Capital of the Kingdom of Siam, by Frederick Arthur Neale (1852) (transcription project)
• Notes of a Journey on the Upper Mekong, Siam, by Herbert Warington Smyth (1895) (start transcription)
• Over Five Seas and Oceans, From New York to Bangkok, Siam, and Return Some Reminiscences, by Thomas Miller (1894) (start transcription)
• Peeps at Many Lands: Siam, by Ernest Young & Edwin Arthur Norbury (1908)
• Report on the Settlement of the Siam and Tenasserim Boundary, by Arthur H. Bagge (1866) (start transcription)
• Siam, by Pierre Loti (1914) (start transcription)
• Siam and China, by C. Mathews & Salvatore Besso (1914) (start transcription)
• Siam and Laos, as Seen by Our American Missionaries, edited by Mary Backus (1884) (transcription project)
• Siam and the Siamese, by John Bowring (1867)
• Siamese and English Records of the Siamese Embassy to England in 1857–1858 (1928) (transcription project)
• Siam, the Land of the White Elephant, as It Was and Is, by George Blagden Bacon (1893) (transcription project)
• The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Second: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Siam and Java, With Descriptions of Cochin-China, Cambodia, Sumatra and the Malay Archipelago, by Thomas Wallace Knox (1880) (start transcription)
• The English Governess at the Siamese Court, by Anna Leonowens (1870) (start transcription)
• The Kingdom and People of Siam, by John Bowring (1857) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• The Kingdom of Siam, by A. Cecil Carter (1904) (start transcription)
• The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe, by Ernest Young (1898) (start transcription)
• The Laos of North Siam, by Lillian Johnson Curtis (1903) (start transcription)
• The Mission of Sir James Brooke to Siam, by Oskar Frankfurter (1911) (start transcription)
• The Mission to Siam and Hue the Capital of Cochin China in the Years 1812–2, by George Finlayson & Thomas Stamford Raffles (1826) (start transcription)
• The Nearer and Farther East: Outline Studies of Moslem Lands and of Siam, Burma, and Korea, by Arthur Judson Brown & Samuel Marinus Zwemer (1909) (start transcription)
• The Pearl of Asia: Reminiscences of the Court of a Supreme Monarch; or, Five Years in Siam, by Jacob T. Child (1892) (transcription project)
• The Philippine Islands, Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the Close of the Sixteenth Century, by Antonio de Morga (1868) (start transcription)
• The Religion of Siam, by "Viator" (1857) (start transcription)
• Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos, by Charles Mouhot & Henri Mouhot (1864) (start transcription)
• Through the Buffer State: A Record of Recent Travels Through Borneo, Siam and Cambodia, by John MacGregor (1896) (start transcription)
• To Siam and Malaya in the Duke of Sutherland's Yacht Sans Peur, by Florence Caddy (1889) (start transcription)
• Where the Strange Trails Go Down: Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China, by Edward Alexander (1921) (start transcription)

History of law

• The New Laws on Civil Procedure, by Henri Eygout (1932) (start transcription)
• The New Penal Code of Siam, by Tōkichi Masao (1908)
• The Sources of Ancient Siamese Law, by Tōkichi Masao (1905)

History of music

• Siamese Musical Instruments, by Damrong Rajanubhab (1931)

History of people

• A Few Particulars Concerning Chang-Eng, the United Siamese Brothers (1836) (start transcription)
• A Half Century Among the Siamese and the Lāo, by Arthur J. Brown & Daniel McGilvary (1912) (start transcription)
• An Historical Account of the Siamese Twin Brothers, From Actual Observations, by James W. Hale (1829) (start transcription)
• King Mongkut, by Oskar Frankfurter (1904) (start transcription)
• Report of the Autopsy of the Siamese Twins (1874) (start transcription)
• The Peoples and Politics of the Far East, by Henry Norman (1895) (start transcription)
• The Siamese Twins, by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer (1831) (start transcription)

History of places

• A Siamese Account of the Construction of the Temple on Khao Phanom Rung, by Erik Seidenfaden (1932) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• Historical Sketch of Lophburi, by Damrong Rajanubhab (1908) (start transcription)
• The Golden Pavilion at Wat Sai, by Damrong Rajanubhab (1921)
• Wat Benchamabopit and Its Collection of Images of the Buddha, by Damrong Rajanubhab (start transcription)

Modern history

• "America, the Great Friend?" Reanalyzing Thailand-U.S. Relations in the 21st Century, by Jessica Sunkamaneevongse (2019) (start transcription)
• Analysis of Insurgent Incidents in Thailand, by Jan Voris Harvey (1971) (start transcription)
• A Study of Labor Strikes in Thailand, by Chamlong Srimuang (1974) (start transcription)
• Civil-Military Relations in Thailand: Military Autonomy or Civilian Control?, by Warren E. Matthews (2005) (start transcription)
• Cotton in Thailand, by Vernon Leonard Harness (1965) (start transcription)
• Ethnic Violence in Southern Thailand: The Anomaly of Satun, by Kevin T. Conlon (2012) (start transcription)
• Democracy Matters: Human Rights and Democracy in Thailand From 2001 to 2017, by Mickey Roase (2019) (start transcription)
• Japan and Siam, by Otto Corbach (1936)
• Progress of Western Education in China and Siam, by the United States' Embassy in China & Consulate in Bangkok (1880) (start transcription)
• Siam: A Handbook of Practical, Commercial, and Political Information, by Walter Armstrong Graham (1913) (start transcription)
• Thailand as an Alternative to the Philippines Bases Problem: New Wine in an Old Bottle, by Edward Gene Redmon (1986) (start transcription)
• The President's Daily Brief, 26 February 1974, by Central Intelligence Agency (1974)
• The Role of Political and Economic Factors in Thailand's Last Two Coups d'États, by Roger R. Vrooman (2007) (start transcription)
• Why Thailand's Military Stepped In, by Andrew C. O'Connor (2011) (start transcription)

Historiography

• The Story of the Records of Siamese History, by Damrong Rajanubhab (1915) (transcription project)

Encyclopedias

• "Siam," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Siam," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)

Miscellanea

• European Settlements in the Far East, by D. Warres Smith (1900) (start transcription)
• The Early Postal History of Thailand, by Paul P. Lindenberg (1944) (start transcription)
• The Indian Colony of Siam, by Phanindra Nath Bose (1927) (transcription project)
• The Introduction of Western Culture in Siam, by Damrong Rajanubhab (1927) (start transcription)
• The Modern Buddhist: Being the Views of a Siamese Minister of State on His Own and Other Religions, by Chaophraya Thiphakorawong (1870) (start transcription)

See also

• Portal:Thai language#Writing