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Subject(s)

• Gambling—Thailand—History [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (2005) ; 82. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 82

Summary note

"Charts the development of gambling in Thailand and relates it to the development of Thai state and society, showing how gambling was a fundamental issue hugely affecting political developments. It considers the difference between law and how law is enforced, outlining how the Thai elite, though professing opposition to gambling, often both tolerated and profited from it, as did the police"--Provided by publisher.

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Language note

English

Contents

• Gambling and socio-economic change in nineteenth-century Siam
• Games, dens and players : gambling in nineteenth-century Thai society
• Gambling revenue and the creation of the modern Thai nation-state
• The Thai elite, anti-gambling and lawmaking
• The police and enforcement
• The judiciary, punishment and the prison
• The press and the Bangkok middle class
• Buddhism, the sangha and the silent majority
• The criminalization of vice : gambling policy in comparative perspective.

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ISBN

• 1-135-90900-8
• 0-203-55210-5
• 1-299-46937-X
• 1-135-90893-1

OCLC

841171211

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203552100

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