The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History - Sanjay SubrahmanyamWittenberg, Jason
Free Essay: Portugal: In existence for nearly six centuries, the Portuguese Empire was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in the world and the...
In this original study of the Portuguese Empire in the East, the Estado da India, George Souza looks in detail at the activities of Macao. His aim is to enquire into the nature of Portuguese society in China and the South China Sea and explain why the political and economic activities of...
Colonial Southeast Asia, c The Portuguese presence in Asia began in 1498 when Vasco da Gama arrived at Calicut in India. By 1511 they were in the major port of Malacca on the Malay Peninsula. It became the center of the Portuguese Southeast Asia trading network. Housed here were two hundred...
Volume 1, Portugal History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: Volume 1, PortugalHistory of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: Volume 1, PortugalMiller, Willard
nTHE ECONOMIC BASE 129\nTOWNS AND THE BEGINNINGS OF COMMERCIAL CAPITALISM 132\nTHE ORDERING OF SOCIETY: THEORY AND PRACTICE 134\nTHE BLACK DEATH AND ITS AFTERMATH 139\nAFONSO IV AND PEDRO I 143\nFERNANDO AND THE CASTILIAN WARS 145\nDYNASTIC CRISIS: A CASTILIAN USURPER OR A PORTUGUESE ...
Moluccas, Spice Islands - a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands Indonesian Borneo, Kalimantan - the part of Indones...
France also attempted to participate actively in Jesuit missions to China. To break the Portuguese dominance there, Louis sent Jesuit missionaries to the court of the Kangxi Emperor in 1685: Jean de Fontaney, Joachim Bouvet, Jean-François Gerbillon, Louis Le Comte, and Claude de Visdelou.[55...
in the 1100s. Portugal flourished as a maritime and colonial power in the 1400s and 1500s with holdings in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Brazil. Much of its empire was lost to the British and the Dutch in the 1600s and 1700s, and the remaining colonies became independent in the ...
Renascent empire?: the House of Braganza and the quest for stability in Portuguese monsoon Asia c.1640-1683 Based on extensive archival research in Portugal, India, England, and France, this work provides the first monographic study of a crucial, yet hitherto ignored period in the history of ...