Richard A. Ruth is a professor of Southeast Asian history in the United States. He worked in Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia for several years in non-governmental aid organizations (NGOs), and later became a research assistant in Yale University's Cambodian Genocide Project.
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A Brief History of Thailand offers an engaging look at the country's last 250 years-from coups and violent massacres to the invention of Pad Thai in the 1930s. Listeners will learn the vibrant story of Thailand's emergence as a prosperous Buddhist state, ... SEE MORE