Dutch East India Company Merchants at the Court of Ayutthaya
Dutch Perceptions of the Thai Kingdom, c.1604-1765
Biographical note
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.
Readership
All those interested in the history of Asian-European interactions and Thai history of the Ayutthaya period.
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