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Portuguese Enterprise in the East by Teddy Y.H. SIM Pdf
Drawing on unpublished materials from the Overseas Historical Archive, and other libraries in Portugal, this book considers Portuguese leadership and organization at home, where it pertained to the governance of the eastern colonies; as well as the formal and ‘soft’ instruments of state applied on the ground in these colonies in first half of the eighteenth century.
Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies by Peter Borschberg Pdf
This book considers the background to the treatises, their content and significance, and what Grotius actually knew about Southeast Asian polities or Portuguese institutions of trade and diplomacy when he wrote them. --
Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs, 1580-1640 by James C. Boyajian Pdf
While Spanish traders of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were mining the riches of the New World, the Portuguese continued to reap the lucrative Asian trade in spices and luxury items. Historians have long considered the Portuguese trade the exclusive enterprise of the kings of Portugal and a few privileged aristocrats, with only minimal participation by private merchants. But in fact, argues James C. Boyajian, actual capital investments by private Portuguese merchants were roughly ten times those of the Portuguese crown - and even exceeded those of the far larger Dutch East India Company. In Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, Boyajian reassesses the consequences of Portugal's flourishing private trade with Asia, including increased tensions between the growing urban merchant class and the still-dominant landed aristocracy. He also shows how Portuguese-Asian trade formed part of a global trading network that linked not only Europe and Asia but also - for the first time - Asia, West Africa, Brazil, and Spanish America. And he argues that, contrary to previous scholarly opinion, nearly half of the Portuguese-Asian trade was controlled by New Christians - descendants of Iberian Jews forcibly converted to Christianity in the 1490s. Ironically, Boyajian concludes, the vast wealth that flowed into Portugal between 1580 and 1640 did little to enrich the country. Landed aristocrats who controlled the church, the Inquisition, and the royal administration used their position to deny merchants the social standing that would encourage productive investments in Portugal. And by the seventeenth century, the Portuguese-Asian trade itself was doomed - the result, Boyajian argues, not of the much-heralded Dutch economic successes but of Dutch naval blockades that effectively severed Portugal's trading lifeline with Asia.
Author : Anthony R. Disney Publisher : Cambridge University Press Page : 439 pages File Size : 50,5 Mb Release : 2009-04-13 Category : History ISBN : 9780521409087
A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire by Anthony R. Disney Pdf
A comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of Portugal's formation and history up to 1807 and of its acquisition of a wide-flung maritime empire from the early fifteenth century.
From Lisbon to Goa, 1500-1750 by Charles Ralph Boxer Pdf
These articles deal with the functioning, and malfunctioning, of the Carreira da India, the round voyages made between Portugal and its possessions in India that began after Vasco da Gama had opened up the route round the Cape of Good Hope in 1497-99. On such voyages was the Portuguese colonial empire built, and these studies illustrate the conditions under which they operated - the ships, the crews, their navigation and their cargoes. For instance, details are given of the medicines carried on board and the hospital established at the way-station of Moçambique in an attempt to combat the perennial scourge of disease. The principal hazard, however, remained that of loss through shipwreck or enemy action, events all too common in the history of the Carreira, which are brought to life most vividly in the Portuguese literary classic, the HistÃ3ria Tràgico-MarÃ-tima; the early printed editions of such tales form the subject of two of the articles and the backdrop to much of the volume.
Based on more than two decades of research conducted on five continents, this monumental work focuses on the activities of members of the Society of Jesus from its foundation to the eve of its expulsion from the Portuguese world. A second volume will examine the Orders expulsion, the fate of its members, and the disposition of its assets in Portugal and her empire from 1750 to 1808. The present volume begins with the Societys introduction to Portugal and traces its expansion throughout what the Society defined as the Portuguese Assistancy, a vast complex of administrative units that included the kingdom of Portugal and her empire plus portions of the Indian subcontinent, Japan, China, the Indonesian archipelago, and Ethiopia. Though it fully describes the evangelical and educational activities of the Jesuits, the book emphasizes their political relations with Portuguese and indigenous leaders, the founding of their major training facilities, the development of their economic infrastructure, their activities as governmental administrators for the Portuguese in India and China, and their role in Portugals unsuccessful attempts to preserve her eastern empire and to revive Brazil after the Dutch occupation (1630-1654). Throughout, the author makes insightful comparisons between the Jesuits and their peers in various parts of the Portuguese Assistancy and between the Jesuits and their monastic predecessors in various parts of Europe, notably France and England.
The British Navy in Eastern Waters by John D. Grainger Pdf
Provides a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the earliest times to the present. This book outlines the early voyages of the English East India Company, its building of its own naval forces and its conflicts with Indian states. It examines the opening up of the Pacific Ocean, the wars with the French in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and the activities of the British navy in the later nineteenth century, both off the coasts of China and Japan, and also in the many other places to which the navy's very great power extended. It goes on to consider the wars of the twentieth century, Britain's withdrawal from east of Suez, and Britain's continuing relative decline. Throughout, the book provides accounts of battles and other actions, and relates the activities of the British navy to the wider political situation and to the activities of other European and Asian navies.
The Quarterly Review by William Gifford,Sir John Taylor Coleridge,John Gibson Lockhart,Whitwell Elwin,William Macpherson,William Smith,John Murray,George Walter Prothero Pdf
History of Mathematical Sciences by LuÃs Saraiva Pdf
' This book explores the interaction between Europe and East Asia between the 16th and the 18th centuries in the field of mathematical sciences, bringing to the fore the role of Portugal as an agent of transmission of European science to East Asia. It is an important contribution to understanding this fundamental period of scientific history, beginning with the arrival of Vasco da Gama in India in 1498 and ending with the expulsion of the Society of Jesus from Portugal in 1759. The former event opened a new era in relations between Europe and Asia, in particular regarding the circulation of scientific knowledge, leading to major social and intellectual changes in both continents. The Society of Jesus controlled education in Portugal and in the Empire. It was central to the network of knowledge transmission until the Society was expelled from Portugal in 1759. The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: • Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings® (ISSHP® / ISI Proceedings) • Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings) Contents:Foreword (L Saraiva)Macau: An Intercultural Frontier in the Ming Period (L F Barreto)Survey and Study of pre-1900 Chinese Maps seen in Europe (X Li)Western Knowledge of Geography Reflected in Juan Cobo's Shilu (1593) (D Liu)The Continuing Influence of the Portuguese: “A New Interpretation of World Geography” (Q Wang)Teachers of Mathematics in China: the Jesuits and their Textbooks (1580–1723) (C Jami)News from China in Sixteenth Century Europe: the Portuguese Connection (R Loureiro)The Indianization of Spain in the 16th Century (J Gil)Jesuit Observations and Star-Mappings in Beijing as the Transmission of Scientific Knowledge (K Hashimoto)The Compilation of the Lixiang Kaochenghoubian, its Origin, Sources, and Social Context (Q Han)A Japanese Reaction to Aristotelian Cosmology (T Yoshida)Portugal and Korea: Obscure Connections in the Pre-Modern Sciences Before 1900 (S-R Park)Translations of Portuguese texts into Konkani and Konkani Compositions into Portuguese, with Educational Influence on Literature and Art and the Transfer of Technology (J Velinkar) Readership: Researchers and academics in history of science; educated readers interested in cultural problems of knowledge transmission, in particular in China, Japan, and other East Asia countries, together with the corresponding audiences in Portugese and Spanish speaking countries. Keywords:Mathematical Sciences;16th to 18th Centuries;Transmission of Science;Society of Jesus;West and EastKey Features:First book centered on the Portuguese contributionIncludes contributions from prominent authors in the field, such as Li Xiaocong, Tadashi Yoshida, Liu Dun and Catherine JamiReviews:“Overall, it is historians of science that will find this book most interesting, particularly those whose research focuses on intercultural issues.”MAA Online Book Review '
