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This page contains a number of things that I have written over the years, which I trust continue to be of value to students of Thai church and missionary history.  It is not a bibliography as such, but I have retained a bibliographic format for each item.  For an English-language bibliography of my work in Thai church history see the Bibliographies page.

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List of Individual Works by Herbert R. Swanson

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• Renard, Ronald D. & Herbert R. Swanson. "Notes on a Letter from Prince Mongkut to S. R. House," Journal of the Siam Society 70 (1982): 128-132. [PDF]

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• "Advocate and Partner: Missionaries and Modernization in Nan Province, Siam, 1895-1934." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 13, 2 (September 1982): 296-309.​ [PDF]

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• At the Headwaters: The Beginning of Christianity in Siam’s Northern Dependencies, 1867-1885.  At herbswanson.com, 2019. [PDF]

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• "A Brief Description of Holdings of the Manuscript Division, Payap College." Journal of the Siam Society 68, 2 (July 1980): 83-90. [PDF]

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• "Chiangmai Coeducational Center: An Administrative History." Chiang Mai: Payap College Manuscript Division, 1980. [PDF]

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• "This Heathen People: The Cognitive Sources of American Missionary Westernizing Activities in Northern Siam, 1867-1889." M.A. thesis, University of Maryland, 1987. [PDF]

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• "The Historical Context of William Clifton Dodd's The Thai Race." Thai-Yunnan ProjectNewsletter 8 (March 1990). [PDF]

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• "Historical Perspectives on the Search for a Relevant Ecclesiology in the Church of Christ in Thailand." Bulletin of the Commission on Theological Concerns, Christian Conference of Asia 8, 1 & 2 (1990): 58-67. [PDF]

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• "Historical Summary of the Christian Movement in Nan Province."  Chiang Mai: Payap University Archives, 1992. [PDF]

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• History of the Laurel Presbyterian Church.  Laurel, Maryland: Laurel Presbyterian Church, 1987. (Electronic Version) [PDF]

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Note: while this item is not at all about Thai church history, it deserves a place here because it was in Laurel while working on my M.A. that I "practiced" doing local church histories of the kind I envisaged doing in Thailand.

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• The Kengtung Question: Presbyterian Mission and Comity in Eastern Burma, 1896-1913." Journal of Presbyterian History 60, 1 (Spring 1982): 59-80. [PDF]

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• Khrischak Muang Nua [History of the Northern Churches]. Bangkok: Chuan Press, 1984. (Electronic Version) [PDF]

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• "Laying the Foundations: Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes towards Thai Buddhism." Unpublished essay, 2002. Revised 2015. [PDF]

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• "A New Generation: Missionary Education and Changes in Women's Roles in Traditional Northern Thai Society." Sojourn 3, 2 (August 1988): 187-206. [PDF]

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• "Northern Thai Protestant Attitudes Towards Other Faiths: Analysis of a Questionnaire."  Chiang Mai: Payap University Archives, 2004. [PDF]

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• "Origins of the Nineteenth-Century Transformation of Cosmology in Northern Siam: The Nan Inta-McGilvary Debates on Science and Religion." Journal of the Siam Society 89, 1 & 2 (2001) 32-39. [PDF]

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• "Orphaned World, Absent God: Notes for Karen Theologies in Northern Thailand." PTCA Bulletin 13, 1 & 2 (June & December 2000): 109-11. [PDF]

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• "The Payap University Archives: A Resource for the Study of Thailand." Sojourn 6, 1 (February 1991): 140-149. [PDF]

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• "Ploughshares of Change: Science and Westernization in Missionary Thought in Thailand." Unpublished paper, Fifth International Conference on Thai Studies, London, July 1993. [PDF]

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• "Prelude to Irony: The Princeton Theology and the Practice of American Presbyterian Missions in Northern Siam, 1867-1880." Ph.D. dissertation, Melbourne College of Divinity, 2003. ​[PDF]

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• "Princeton and the Laos Mission: A Case Study of Princeton Theological Seminary's Influence in the Nineteenth Century." Journal of Presbyterian History 82, 2 (Summer 2004): 108-125. [PDF]​

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• "Protestantism in Thailand." In Historical Sketch of Protestant Missions in Siam 1828-1928, edited by George Bradley McFarland, vii-lxxxiii. Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 1999. [PDF]

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• "Reconstructing Fundamentalism: a Preliminary Analysis of Protestant Strategies for Religious and Cultural Accommodation in Northern Thailand." Journal of Theologies and Cultures in Asia 4 (2005): 5-36. [PDF]

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• "Reflections on the History of Bible Translation in Northern Thailand." Bulletin: United Bible Societies 170/171 (1994): 30-36. [PDF]

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• Reflections on 'Christianity in the Thai Historical Context': A Conference of Catholic, Protestant and Buddhist Historians held in Chiang Mai, in March 1992."  Asia Journal of Theology 7, 1 (April 1993): 185-191.

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• Research Papers of Herbert R. Swanson.  At the Payap University Archives, Payap University. (Finding Aid) [PDF]

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• "This Seed: Missionary Printing and Literature as Agents of Change in Northern Siam, 1892-1926." In Changes in Northern Thailand and the Shan States 1886-1940, edited by Prakai Nontawasee, 175-207. Singapore: Southeast Asian Studies Program, 1988. [PDF]

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• "The Round Table".  In To What Extent? Incarnation and the Thai Context, edited by Herbert R. Swanson.  Chiang Mai: The Payap College Manuscript Division,1982. [PDF]

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• Towards a Clean Church: A Case Study in Nineteenth-Century Thai Church History. Chiang Mai: Office of History, Church of Christ in Thailand, 1991. [PDF]

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• Wangaratta Baptist Church: An Inquiry into Historical Patterns and Themes.  [Wangaratta, Victoria: Wangaratta Baptist Church, 1985] [PDF]

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Note: like the history of the Laurel Presbyterian Church (above),  this item is not at all about Thai church history, but it deserves a place here because it was my first experience in writing a local church history, which became a major concern of my in my research in Thai church and missionary history.