Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, C.1800-1945 (Hardcover)

Introduction  1. Gambling and Socio-Economic Change in Nineteenth-Century Siam 2. Games, Dens and Players: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century Thai Society 3. Gambling Revenue and the Creation of the Modern Thai Nation-State 4. The Thai Elite, Anti-Gambling and Lawmaking 5. The Police and Enforcement 6. The Judiciary, Punishment and the Prison 7. The Press and the Bangkok Middle Class 8. Buddhism, the Sangha and the General Public 9. Siamese Vice: The Criminalisation of Gambling in Comparative Perspective 10. Conclusion