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A history of Ayutthaya : Siam in the early modern world
- Title
- A history of Ayutthaya : Siam in the early modern world / Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit.
- Author
- Baker, Christopher John, 1948-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Pasuk Phongpaichit
- Description
- xvii, 325 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history has been neglected. This book is the first study of Ayutthaya from its emergence in the thirteenth century until its fall. It offers a wide-ranging view of social, political, and cultural history with focus on commerce, kingship, Buddhism, and war. By drawing on a wide range of sources including chronicles, accounts by Europeans, Chinese, Persians, and Japanese, law, literature, art, landscape, and language, the book presents early Siam as a 'commercial' society, not the peasant society usually assumed. Baker and Phongpaichit attribute the fall of the city not to internal conflict or dynastic decline but failure to manage the social and political consequences of prosperity. This book is essential reading for all those interested in the history of Southeast Asia and the early modern world"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Thailand > History, Military
- Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (Thailand) > Commerce
- Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (Thailand) > Politics and government
- Thailand > History > To 1782
- Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (Thailand) > History
- Thailand > Kings and rulers > History
- Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (Thailand) > Social conditions
- Buddhism > Thailand > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-315) and index.
- Contents
- Preface: Ayutthaya in history -- 1. Before Ayutthaya -- 2. Ayutthaya rising -- 3. An age of warfare -- 4. Peace and commerce -- 5. An urban and commercial society -- 6. Ayutthaya falling -- 7. To Bangkok -- Appendix: Lists of kings -- Glossary -- Notes on some major sources.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-7945
- ISBN
- 9781107190764
- 1107190762
- 9781316641132
- 1316641139
- LCCN
- 2017003093
- OCLC
- 982465260
- Author
- Baker, Christopher John, 1948- author.
- Title
- A history of Ayutthaya : Siam in the early modern world / Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-315) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Pasuk Phongpaichit, co-author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-7945