Dutch East India Company Merchants at the Court of Ayutthaya: Dutch Perceptions of the Thai Kingdom, Ca. 1604-1765

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BRILL, 2007 - 279 ページ
No European country enjoyed such long-standing relations with the Thai Kingdom of Ayutthaya as the Netherlands. This study focuses on the perceptions of the merchants of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) of the Thai royal court in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Basing herself on a wealth of Dutch primary sources, the author shows how trade, politics, and diplomacy shaped a unique relationship based on 'partnership' and a 'sense of differences'. The book contributes to expanding the study of the history of Ayutthaya-known for its scarcity of sources- with the help of contemporary Dutch views.
 

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Introduction
1
The Company and the Court
17
The Company Men and Settlement in Siam
35
Learning the Language of Ritual the Dutch at the Court of King Prasatthong
55
Learning Siams Politics The Case of King Prasatthong
91
Observing King Narais Widening World
111
Redefining the Relationships The Dutch and the Court of King Phetracha
149
Remain or Leave? The Dutch and the EighteenthCentury Siamese Court
180
Conclusion
221
Notes
225
Appendices
261
Bibliography
265
Index
273
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Bhawan Ruangsilp (1971) obtained her MA in European History and German Literature at Tübingen University in 1999, and her doctorate in History at Leiden University in 2007. She is a lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Her main interests are the history of Asian-European interactions and pre-modern Thai history.

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