Our Wars with the Burmese

It frames the history of Thailand from the Ayutthaya to early Rattanakosin periods as a continuous struggle to maintain independence, represented by an extensive series of wars—44 in total between 1538 and 1853—against the aggression of neighbouring Burma.

[1] 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.

[1][2] The book is one of the most influential works on the historiography of Thailand, described by Thongchai Winichakul as "probably the most powerful narrative in modern Thai historiography"[1] and noted by Sunait Chutintaranond as being "responsible for popularizing the image of the Burmese as an enemy of the Thai nation".

[3] It, together with Damrong's other writings, greatly influenced subsequent works such as Khun Wichitmatra's Lak Thai, and its concepts have become incorporated into school history textbooks ever since.

[3][1] Thai Rop Phama was translated into English as Our Wars with the Burmese by U Aung Thein, and first published in the Journal of the Burma Research Society in 1955, 1957 and 1958.