| ISBN |
0754659941 (hbk.) |
| 9780754659945 (hbk.) |
| Author |
Disney, A. R. (Anthony R.), 1938- |
| Title |
The Portuguese in India and other studies, 1500-1700 / [by] A.R. Disney |
| Publisher |
Farnham, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2009 |
| Physical desc. |
1 v. (various pagings) ; 1 port. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Collected studies 933 |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Subject |
Portuguese -- India -- History -- 16th century |
| Portuguese -- India -- History -- 17th century |
| Portugal -- Relations -- India |
| Portugal -- Relations -- Mogul Empire |
| India -- Relations -- Portugal |
| Mogul Empire -- Relations -- Portugal |
| Goa, Daman and Diu (India) -- History |
| India -- History -- 1526-1765 |
