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Portuguese Enterprise in the East
Survival in the Years 1707-1757
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English
Published/Copyright:
2011
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Since 2000, there have been fewer studies released about the ‘formal aspects’ of the operation of colonial powers, such as Portugal, in the East during the Early Modern period. Prior, the fall of Communism, in the last decade of the twentieth century, gave a boost to liberal ideology, while research into topics related to autocracy or state apparatus have become unfashionable. The Portuguese role in the East is usually overlooked, being less high-profile than that of the Dutch or British. Drawing on unpublished materials from the Overseas Historical Archive, and other libraries in Portugal, this book considers Portuguese leadership and organization at home, where it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.
Author / Editor information
Teddy Sim Y.H., Ph.D in History, University of Wollongong, is a Lecturer at the Institute of Education in Nanyang Technological University. His research interest is in the area of the Portuguese colonial presence in the Indian Ocean and the Far East in the eighteenth century on which he has written a few articles.
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"A welcome addition to the existing literature on the history of the Portuguese expansion in the East."
- Stephen Jeyaseela (Visva-Bharati University, India), in Journal of the Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 7 Nos.1-2 Jan-Dec 2012, pp. 221-23
- Stephen Jeyaseela (Visva-Bharati University, India), in Journal of the Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 7 Nos.1-2 Jan-Dec 2012, pp. 221-23
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eBook published on:
August 25, 2011
eBook ISBN:
9789004209855
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Main content:
214
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7
eBook ISBN:
9789004209855
Keywords for this book
eighteenth century; Portuguese; colonial; empire; East; 18th century; Estado da India
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in the history of Portugal and the Portuguese empire in the East, focusing on the survival and development of the Portuguese East in the eighteenth century. This book is aimed specifically at specialists in Portuguese colonial history.
