The Portuguese in India and other studies, 1500-1700
By: A.R. Disney
Series: Variorum collected studies series -- 933; Collected studies -- CS933.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754659945
Subjects: Portuguese; History; Kolonialismus; Handel; Commerce
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Portuguese in India. The first Portuguese India Company, 1628-33 ; The Portuguese empire in India c. 1550-1650 ; Goa in the seventeenth century ; Smugglers and smuggling in the western half of the Estado da India in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries ; Famine and famine relief in Portuguese India in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries ; The ceremonial induction of incoming viceroys at Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; title: Viceroy Linhares and his era. The Viceroy Count of Linhares at Goa, 1629-1635 ; The viceroy as entrepreneur: the Count of Linhares at Goa in the 1630s ; From Viceroy of India to Viceroy of Brazil?: the Count of Linhares at court (1636-39) ; Scaling down and holding on: life in Portuguese Tangier in the early seventeenth century ; The fiscal reforms of Viceroy Linhares at Goa ; Ex-Viceroy Linhares and the galleys of Sicily, 1641-44; title: Travel and communications by land and by sea. The Portuguese and foreign European overland merchants trading between the eastern Mediterranean and South and Southwest Asia, c. 1515-1645 ; The world of long-distance voyaging in the seventeenth century: the Lisbon-Goa fleet of 1629 as a case study ; The gulf route from India to Portugal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: couriers, traders and image-makers ; First encounters in early Portuguese travel literature ; The Portuguese and Saint Helena; title: Historiography and problems of interpretation. Vasco da Gama's reputation for violence: the alleged atrocities at Calicut in 1502 ; Charles Boxer as biographer: a preliminary evaluation.