Vasco da Gama and the linking of Europe and Asia
By: edited by Anthony Disney and Emily Booth.
Contributors: Disney, A. R. 1938-; Booth, Emily.; Vasco da Gama Quincentenary Conference (1997 : Melbourne and Fremantle, Australia)
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 504
Subjects: Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524 -- Congresses; Portugal -- Relations -- Indian Ocean Region -- Congresses; Indian Ocean Region -- Relations -- Portugal -- Congresses; Indian Ocean Region -- Civilization -- Portugese influences
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Contributed papers presented at the Vasco da Gama Quincentenary Conference held in Melbourne and Fremantle, Australia in June 1997.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. Plenary Lectures; title: 1. The Indian Ocean in World History; title: Felipe Ferndndez-Armesto; title: 2. Travelling with the Fifteenth-century Discoverers:; title: Their Daily Life; title: A.H.H. de Oliveira Marques; title: 3. The Unity of Opposites: Abraham Zacut,; title: Vasco da Gama and the Chronicler Gaspar Correia; title: Maurice Kriegel and Sanjay Subrahmanyam; title: 4. Ships, Seafaring and the Iconography of Voyages; title: in the Age of Vasco da Gama; title: John Villiers; title: II. Trade and Economic Relations; title: 5. Soldiers, Diamonds and Jesuits: Flemings and; title: Dutchmen in Portuguese India (1505-90); title: John Everaert; title: 6. Christians and Muslims in the Surat Sea:; title: Ships, Merchandise and Goods Captured in a; title: Naval Battle in 1630; title: Artur Teodoro de Maros and Paulo Lopes Matos; title: 7. The East African Coast in 1498:; title: A Synchronic Study; title: M.N. Pearson; title: 8. The Portuguese in the Fat East, 1540-1640; title: Om Prakash; title: 9. Camphor in East and Southeast Asian Trade,; title: c. 1500: A Synthesis of Portuguese and Asian Sources; title: Roderich Ptak; title: 10. Five Centuries, Five Modalities: European; title: Interaction with Southeast Asia, 1497-1997; title: Anthony Reid; title: III. Religious and Cultural Interactions; title: 11. Some Observations on Portuguese Renegades in; title: Asia in the Sixteenth Century; title: Dejanirah Silva Couto; title: 12. The Encounter of Languages: Reflections on the; title: Language of the Other in Roteiro da Primeira; title: Viagem de Vasco da Gama; title: Elena Losada Soler; title: 13. Converts, Proteges and Assimilated Natives:; title: The Advantages of Christianization and the; title: Beliefs of Goan Christians (Eighteenth Century); title: Maria de Jesus dos Mdrtires Lopes; title: 14. The Jesuits and Japan; title: Derek Massarella; title: 15. Goa-Macao-Beijing: The Jesuits and; title: Portugal's China Connection; title: Paul Rule; title: 16. For God, King and Mammon: The Portuguese; title: outside of Empire, 1480-1580; title: A.J.R. Russell-Wood; title: Contents; title: 17. Islands and Beaches: Indigenous Relations with; title: the Portuguese in Sri Lanka after Vasco da Gama; title: Chandra RP de Silva; title: IV. Sources, Texts and Representations; title: 18. From the West to the East: The Return of; title: the Printed Word; title: Jodao JosAlves Dias; title: 19. Portuguese as seen by the Historians of the; title: Qing Court; title: Carney T. Fisher; title: 20. South Sulawesi Chronicles and Their; title: Possible Models; title: Campbell C Macknight; title: 21. When Poetry and History Meet: The First Voyage; title: of Vasco da Gama in Literary Texts; title: Maria Alzira Seixo; title: 22. Myth and Power: Vasco da Gama as; title: Bourgeois Appropriation in the Opera of; title: the Nineteenth Century; title: Isabel Soler Quintana; title: 23. Was There a Vasco da Gama Epoch?; title: Recent Historiography; title: John E. Wills Jr.; title: V. Empire, Politics and Diplomacy; title: 24. The Suppression of the Society of Jesus in; title: the Portuguese Assistancy in Asia:; title: The Fate of Survivors, 1760-77; title: DaurilAlden; title: 25. Divesting a Myth: Seventeenth Century; title: Dutch-Portuguese Rivalry in the Far East; title: Leonard Blussd; title: 26. Continuity and Change: The Portuguese; title: Presence in British Bombay, c. 1660-1860; title: Mariam Dossal; title: 27. Portuguese Timor on the Eve of the Pacific War; title: Robert Lee; title: 28. Vasco da Gama and the Later Portuguese; title: Colonial Presence in India; title: Teotonio R de Souza; title: 29. Spiritual Peoples at Odds: Portugal, India; title: and the Goa Question, 1947-61; title: Douglas L. Wheeler; title: 30. Faction, Administrative Control and the Failure; title: of the Portuguese India Company, 1628-33; title: Lorraine White; title: 31. Few Thanks to the King: The Building of; title: Portuguese India; title: George Winius; title: Contributors.