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Title: A HISTORY OF AYUTTHAYA
SIAM IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
By: Chris Baker, Pasuk Phongpaichit
Format: Hardback

List price: £83.99


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ISBN 10: 1107190762
ISBN 13: 9781107190764
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 11 May, 2017
Pages: 342
Description: The first full history of a great commercial and political center that rose in Asia over almost five centuries.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Returnable
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