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A history of Ayutthaya : Siam in the early modern world

Baker, Christopher John, 1948- author, Pasuk Phongpaichit, co-author

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\"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.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Buddhism Thailand History. / Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (Thailand) History. / Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (Thailand) Social conditions. / Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (Thailand) Politics and government. / Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (Thailand) Commerce. / Thailand History To 1782. / Thailand Kings and rulers History. / Thailand History, Military.
• ISBN: 9781107190764, 9781316641132

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS589.P47 B34 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE