Improvising Empire: Portuguese Trade and Settlement in the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1700

by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

While the general outline of the history of Portuguese expansion in Asia is rather well-known, many areas that were hubs of trade and settlement have been only briefly studied. One of the most conspicuous of those is the Bay of Bengal, where the Portuguese had an important official and unofficial presence in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The product of extensive research in Indian, Portuguese, and Netherland archives, this collection of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195625706
• ISBN13: 9780195625707
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"