Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Maps; Introduction; Chapter One: The Company and the Court; Chapter Two: The Company Men and Settlement in Siam; Chapter Three: Learning the Language of Ritual: the Dutch at the Court of King Prasatthong; Chapter Four: Learning Siam's Politics: The Case of King Prasatthong; Chapter Five: Observing King Narai's Widening World; Chapter Six: Redefining the Relationships: The Dutch and the Court of King Phetracha; Chapter Seven: Remain or Leave?: The Dutch and the Eighteenth-Century Siamese Court; Conclusion; Notes; Appendices; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Deals with the early modern Dutch-Thai interactions as told by the merchants of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who concurrently tried to find a balance between their 'partnership' with and 'sense of differences' from the Thai elite. This book presents a study of Ayutthaya's history
