Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies

The Social World of Ayutthaya, 1640-1720
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-19048-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 458 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 956 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halikowski Smith, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Spelling
List of Figures

1. Introduction: a world of creolization
2. ‘People on the move’: Seventeenth century population movements in the Portuguese Indies
3. The rise and fall of Portuguese Makassar
4. No obvious home: the flight of the Portuguese ‘tribe’ from Makassar in the 1660s
5. From contact to settlement in South-East Asia: a history of mercenaries and interlopers
6. ‘O campo português’: The Portuguese quarter in Ayutthaya in the wake of the Makassarese diaspora
7. The development of the presence of the Catholic church in Ayutthaya
8. ‘Those (…) who occupy the lowest category here’. The social relegation, but survival, of the Portuguese ‘tribe’
9. ‘Living great after the fashion of the country’: Comparisons with Portuguese in neighboring kingdoms
10. Unpublished depictions of Portuguese in Thai and Burmese temple murals
11. ‘All that the French Bishops wish is to see us leave’: Religious disputes in South-East Asia between Portuguese Jesuits and French Missionaires Étrangères de Paris
12. Conclusion

Documentary annexes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Halikowski Smith, Ph.D. (2001) in History and Civilisation, European University Institute, is Lecturer in History at Swansea University. His specialisation is Portuguese overseas expansion in the early modern period, both publishing widely and lecturing on this topic at Brown University, Rhode Island. His most recent edited collection entitled Portugal Índico: Essays on the history of the Portuguese presence in South Asia came out as a Special Issue of Itinerario in 2007.