General:
Name: The Portuguese Empire in Asia, – Subrahmanyam, Sanjay
Format: epub
Size: 1.5 MB
Book:
Title: The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700
Author: Subrahmanyam, Sanjay.
Language: English
Year: 1993
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ISBN: 978-0582050686
Total pages: 384
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.
