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Siam is called by its inhabitants Thaï, which means ‘free,’ or Muang-Thaï, ‘the land of the free.’ The word Siam is probably identical with Shan, applied in Burma to the Lao race, as well as to the Shan proper and the Siamese.
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Statistical and Other Books of Reference concerning Siam
1. Official Publications
Statistical Year Book of the Kingdom of Siam. Bangkok. Annual. (First issue, 1916.
Report of the Financial Adviser on the Budget of Siam. Annual. Bangkok (last Report published in 1930).
The Record (the organ of the Board of Commercial Development). Quarterly. Bangkok.
Department of Overseas Trade Reports. Biennial. London.
Reports on the Operations of the Royal Survey Department. Bangkok.
2. Non-official Publications
Directory of Bangkok and Siam (Bangkok Times). Bangkok. Annual.
Besso (S.), Siam and China. London, 1914.
Bowring (John), The Kingdom and People of Siam. 2 vols. London, 1857.
Campbell (J. G. D.), Siam in the XXth Century. London, 1902.
Carter (A. C.), The Kingdom of Siam. [Louisiana Purchase Exhibition.] New York and London, 1904.
Colquhoun (A. R.), Among the Shans. London, 1885.
Credner (W ), Siam : das Land der Tai. Stuttgart, 1935.
Forty (C. H.), Bangkok. London, 1929.
Graham (W. A.), Siam: A Handbook of Practical ,Commercial and Political Information. New edition. 2 vols. London, 1924.
Kornerup (E.), Friendly Siam. Translated from the Danish by M. Guiterman. London, 1928.
Lemire (Ch.), La France et le Siam (1662–1903). Paris, 1903.
Le May (R.), An Asian Arcady.—The Land and Peoples of Northern Siam. Cambridge, 1926.—The Coinage of Siam. Bangkok, 1933.
Loti (Pierre), Siam. London, 1923.
Morgentaler (H. O.), Matahari : Impressions of the Siamese-Malayan Jungle. London, 1922.
Mouhot (Henry), Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia and Laos during the years 1858–1860. 2 vols. London, 1864.
Pallegoix (D. J.), Description du royaume de Thai ou Siam. 2 vols. Paris, 1854.
Satow (E. M.), Essay towards a Bibliography of Siam, Singapore, 1886.
Wheatcroft (R.), Siam and Cambodia London, 1928.
Wales (H. G. Q.), Siamese State Ceremonies, Their History and Function. London, 1932.—Ancient Siamese Government and Administration. London, 1934.
Wood (W. A. R.), A History of Siam. London, 1926.
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Epstein, M. (1936). Siam. In: Epstein, M. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270657_64
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