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This book provides an original study of the sizeable Portuguese community in Ayutthaya, the chief river-state in Siam, during a period of apparent decline (1640-1720). Portuguese populations were displaced from their chief settlements like Melaka and Makassar, and attracted to the river-states of mainland South-East Asia by a protective model of kingship, hopes of international trade and the opportunity to harvest souls. A variety of sources will be used to shed light on the fortunes and make-up of this displaced, mixed-race 'tribe', which was largely independent of the matrices of Portuguese colonial power, and fared poorly alongside other foreign communities in this remarkably open, dynamic environment. Circumstances changed for the better after the National Revolution of 1688, when Portuguese started to fill many of the jobs at court and in commerce previously occupied by Frenchmen and northern Europeans.

Community life --- Creoles --- Portuguese --- Ethnology --- Racially mixed people --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- History. --- Migrations --- History --- Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (Thailand) --- Southeast Asia --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia --- Ayutthaya (Thailand) --- Ayudhya (Thailand) --- Ayodhya (Thailand) --- Krung Sī ʻAyutthayā (Thailand) --- Krung Kao (Thailand) --- Ayowthia (Thailand) --- Ayutia (Thailand) --- Ayuthia (Thailand) --- Aywthya (Thailand) --- Ayutthia (Thailand) --- Ayutya (Thailand) --- Iudia (Thailand) --- Iudea (Thailand) --- Judia (Thailand) --- ʻAyōthayā (Thailand) --- Social life and customs. --- Emigration and immigration

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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.

Buddhism --- History. --- Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (Thailand) --- Thailand --- Tʻai-kuo --- Hsien-lo --- Muang-Thai --- Thaimaa --- Prates Thai --- Prades Thai --- Thaïlande --- Kingdom of Thailand --- Prathēt Thai --- Tailand --- Thailandia --- Thajsko --- Royal Thai Government --- Ratcha Anachak Thai --- Koninkryk van Thailand --- تايلاند --- Tāylānd --- Tailandia --- Reino de Tailandia --- Tayilande --- Royômo de Tayilande --- Tayland Krallığı --- Pratet Tai --- Thài-kok --- Тайланд --- Каралеўства Тайланд --- Karaleŭstva Taĭland --- Tailandya --- Tajland --- Kraljevina Tajland --- Кралство Тайланд --- Kralstvo Taĭland --- Siam --- Ayutthaya (Thailand) --- Ayudhya (Thailand) --- Ayodhya (Thailand) --- Krung Sī ʻAyutthayā (Thailand) --- Krung Kao (Thailand) --- Ayowthia (Thailand) --- Ayutia (Thailand) --- Ayuthia (Thailand) --- Aywthya (Thailand) --- Ayutthia (Thailand) --- Ayutya (Thailand) --- Iudia (Thailand) --- Iudea (Thailand) --- Judia (Thailand) --- ʻAyōthayā (Thailand) --- Social conditions. --- Politics and government. --- Commerce. --- History --- Kings and rulers --- History, Military.