Our Wars With The Burmese
''Thai Rop Phama'' (), translated into English as ''Our Wars with the Burmese'', is a book on Thai history written by Prince Damrong Rajanubhab, with volumes first published in 1917 and 1920. It frames the history of Thailand from the Ayutthaya Kingdom, Ayutthaya to early Rattanakosin periods as a continuous struggle to maintain independence, represented by an extensive Burmese–Siamese wars, series of wars—44 in total between 1538 and 1853—against the aggression of neighbouring Burma. Although the work is based largely on the Royal Chronicles of Ayutthaya, Damrong reframed the chronicles' then-traditional approach to historiography—which ascribed historical events to the moral power of individual kings—and transformed it into a narrative centred around the newly introduced concept of nationhood, reflecting the anti-colonial and rising Thai nationalist thought of the period. The book is one of the most influential works on the historiography of Thailand, described by Tho ...
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