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.
Softcover, xiii+320pp., 14x21.5cm., ills. in b/w., in very good condition. As new. ISBN: 9780582050686.
14x21cm
320 pp.
Longman 1993 London