Bangkok journalist M. Sivaram’s The New Siam in the Making: a Survey of the Political Transition in Siam, 1932-36, published in 1936, was the first significant account in English to describe the ending of Thailand’s Absolute Monarchy in 1932 and the earliest years of the Constitutional regime which followed. Sivaram himself witnessed most of the events which he describes, including those of the tumultuous year of 1933, which saw the presentation of a controversial New Economic Plan by civilian Promoter Pridi Banamyong, a backlash in which Pridi’s plan was labeled a form of Communism and Pridi himself was forced to temporarily leave the country, and much of the progressive program of the Khana Ratsadon (“People’s Party”) in 1932 reversed. Following a second military coup by the Promoters in June, 1933, recalcitrant supporters of the former Absolutist government, led by Prince Boworadet, launched rebel military garrisons against the capital in a bitter and bloody struggle for power, while several additional provincial garrisons joined in the revolt. Nevertheless, battles fought both in the Bangkok suburbs and at Pak Chong, near Korat, ended in a resounding victory for the Government forces, who moved to reestablish order and restore the liberal ideals of the Revolution of 1932. They thereby entrenched and normalized the fundamental political institutions which would dominate Thailand’s governing system to the present time.