The English Factory in Siam 1612-1685

ISBN: 9780712349284

出版社: Univ of Chicago Pr

出版年: 2007-9

页数: 1900

定价: $ 452.00

装帧: HRD

内容简介

This edition of more than 700 documents from the archives of the English East India Company is an important new source for the history of Southeast Asia. 17th-century Siam was a remarkably open society, where the English found themselves interacting not only with their hosts but also with Persians, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesians, Portuguese, French and Dutch. The surviving documents range from business correspondence and ships' journals to more intimate letters home, bitter denunciations of rivals and vicious pamphleteering.