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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.

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.

Book II is the most comprehensive and detailed study of Khmer civilization available, from 1595 CE to the Contemporary Period. Even after the fall of Angkor, the kingdom remained relatively strong until the Ayutthayan King Naresuan conquered Longvek in 1594. When his armies returned to Ayutthaya, they did permanent damage to Cambodia by forcibly taking Khmer craftsmen and scholars, leaders of many great Khmer families, and all the Khmer treasures including sacred manuscripts, chronicles, and records of laws, customs and traditions.In the centuries that followed, the threat from Siamese hegemony continued growing until King Norodom petitioned France for protection.The French Protectorate Period began in 1863, but transformed into the French Colonial Period as controls increased. Finally, King Sihanouk succeeded in gaining independence for Cambodia on 9 November 1953.Book II details how ancient relationships between Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam evolved in the modern era. The book examines how Cambodia lost Kampuchea Krom/Cochinchina, how the Khmer people were forced to build the Vinh Te canal, and how Thailand and Vietnam used Cambodia as the battlefield to prop up Khmer monarchs that they controlled. Finally, we examine the 20th century birth of the Khmer communist party, the central issues of Pol Pot's elimination of his communist comrades in the context of the war that ensued, and the complex regime changes between the Khmer Republic, Democratic Kampuchea (i.e. the Khmer Rouge), the People's Republic of Kampuchea under Vietnamese occupation, and the current Kingdom of Cambodia.Book II is supplemented with nearly one hundred color tables, charts, photos and diagrams, references, bibliography and full index.

The Grand Palace is the "jewel in the crown" of the city of Bangkok, representing the finest flowering of Thai art and culture. Begun in 1782 by King Rama I, whose goal was to recreate the magnificence of the vanquished capital city of Ayutthaya, the Grand Palace is renowned as a glorious resource of Thai culture and decorative style. This text contains colour photographs, many of areas that are not normally accessible, capturing the palace's throne rooms, residential quarters and offices, as well as the impressive temple enshrining the venerated Emerald Buddha. It describes the history of the palace and its incredible ornamentation, and also includes an account of Thai ceremonies, a full list of the kings of the Chakri dynasty, notes on architectural elements, a glossary and further reading.

Seventeenth-century Siam was a remarkably open society, where at the great port city of Ayutthaya the English found themselves interacting and competing not only with their hosts but also with Persians, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesians, Portuguese, French and Dutch. The English Factory in Siam 1612-1685 contains more than 700 documents from the archives of the English East India Company, making it an important new source for the history of Southeast Asia.The surviving documents range from business correspondence, commodity accounts and ships' journals to more intimate letters home, bitter denunciations of rivals and vicious pamphleteering. The cast of characters includes Siamese kings and high officials, East India Company servants, renegade Englishmen, and the amazing Constantine Phaulkon, a former Company employee of Greek origin who became a Siamese minister, invited a French army into Siam, and was executed in a palace coup in 1688. This two-volume text is sure to become an invaluable reference tool for historical research.

Book II is the most comprehensive and detailed study of Khmer civilization available, from 1595 CE to the Contemporary Period. Even after the fall of Angkor, the kingdom remained relatively strong until the Ayutthayan King Naresuan conquered Longvek in 1594. When his armies returned to Ayutthaya, they did permanent damage to Cambodia by forcibly taking Khmer craftsmen and scholars, leaders of many great Khmer families, and all the Khmer treasures including sacred manuscripts, chronicles, and records of laws, customs and traditions.In the centuries that followed, the threat from Siamese hegemony continued growing until King Norodom petitioned France for protection.The French Protectorate Period began in 1863, but transformed into the French Colonial Period as controls increased. Finally, King Sihanouk succeeded in gaining independence for Cambodia on 9 November 1953.Book II details how ancient relationships between Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam evolved in the modern era. The book examines how Cambodia lost Kampuchea Krom/Cochinchina, how the Khmer people were forced to build the Vinh Te canal, and how Thailand and Vietnam used Cambodia as the battlefield to prop up Khmer monarchs that they controlled. Finally, we examine the 20th century birth of the Khmer communist party, the central issues of Pol Pot's elimination of his communist comrades in the context of the war that ensued, and the complex regime changes between the Khmer Republic, Democratic Kampuchea (i.e. the Khmer Rouge), the People's Republic of Kampuchea under Vietnamese occupation, and the current Kingdom of Cambodia.Book II is supplemented with nearly one hundred color tables, charts, photos and diagrams, references, bibliography and full index.