Freedom Not Yet

Freedom Not Yet

Liberation and the Next World Order

This volume presents critical editions of two previously unpublished missionary accounts of Ayutthaya and the East Indies scene after the "National" Revolution of 1688 in Thailand: <i>Relation de Voyage aux Indes</i>, 1690-99, by Guy Tachard, a French Jesuit; and <i>Relatione Distinta delli Regni di Siam, China, Tunchino e Cocincina</i> (ca. 1707), by Nicola Cima, an Italian Augustinian. These interesting, substantial texts tell us a lot both about the Europeans who were writing them, and about Southeast Asia in a period when information was in much shorter supply than prior to 1688.
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements and Aids to Research
  • Brief Chronology of the Lives and Movements of Guy Tachard and Nicola Agustin Cima
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: Presentation of Guy Tachard s.j., Relation de Voyage aux Indes (1690–99)
    • The Relation de Voyage aux Indes (1690–99)
    • Guy Tachard, A Travel Account to the Indies (Relation de Voyage aux Indes) 1690–99
  • PART TWO: Presentation of Nicola Cima, o.e.s.a. Relatione Distinta delli Regni di Siam, China, Tunchino, e Cocincina (ca. 1707)
    • The Relatione Distinta delli Regni di Siam, China, Tunchino, e Cocincina
    • A Distinct Report on the Kingdoms of Siam, China, Tonkin, and Cochinchina on the Part of Father Nicola Agostin Cima of the Order of Augustinians
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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