Title A history of Ayutthaya : Siam in the early modern world / Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 325 pages) : PDF file(s) 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 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 Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2017) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-315) and index Subject Buddhism -- Thailand -- History Buddhism Commerce Kings and rulers Politics and government Social conditions SUBJECT 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. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134446 Thailand -- Kings and rulers -- History Thailand -- History, Military Subject Thailand Thailand -- Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Genre/Form History Military history Form Electronic book Author Pasuk Phongpaichit, co-author ISBN 9781108120197 1108120199 9781107190764 1107190762 9781316641132 1316641139

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