1st Edition
Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c.1800-1945
By James A. Warren
Copyright 2013
246 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
264 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
264 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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During the nineteenth century there was a huge increase in the level and types of gambling in Thailand. Taxes on gambling became a major source of state revenue, with the government establishing state-run lotteries and casinos in the first half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, over the same period, a strong anti-gambling discourse emerged within the Thai elite, which sought to regulate... Read more
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
Biography
James A. Warren is a lecturer in the Social Science Division of Mahidol University International College, Thailand.
"The role of gambling in Southeast Asian history has attracted far less scholarly attention than its sister vices – opium and prostitution – and James Warren’s book, Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, is a big step towards addressing this gap. Broad in scope and detailed in analysis, the book pries open the complex relationships between gambling and the modernisation of Thailand in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."
Kah-Wee Lee, TRaNS: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, May 2015
