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The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History
Author(s): Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Author)
- Publisher: Longman Sc & Tech
- Publication Date: January 1, 1993
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 384 pages
- ISBN-10: 0582050685
- ISBN-13: 9780582050686
Book Description
Portugal, a tiny nation with around a million inhabitants, created a world empire between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries which left vestiges in Africa and Asia as late as the 1970s. To illuminate the Asian dimension of this empire — to show how it came into being and how it changed over time — Dr Subrahmanyam explores the interaction of international and local factors in Europe, Asia and East Africa alike. This is a major contribution to the early modern history of Asia, as well as to the study of European expansion.
