A History of Ayutthaya
A History of Ayutthaya

Author: Chris Baker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-05-11

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1108121438

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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.

History of the Kingdom of Siam
History of the Kingdom of Siam

Author: F. H. Turpin

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-06-24

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9781530061419

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Turpin's History of Siam, published at Paris in the year 1771 consists of two volumes, the first of which deals merely with the natural History of Siam.- The present book is a translation of the second volume only, and is of considerable interest owing to the fact that it is the only extant European work dealing with the events leading up to and succeeding the fall of the old capital, Ayuthia.

Siam Mapped
Siam Mapped

Author: Thongchai Winichakul

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1997-06-30

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780824819743

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This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped challenges much that has been written on Thai history because it demonstrates convincingly that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic.