Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era

by Michael N. Pearson

Book Overview

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

In Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early modern period.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801872421
• ISBN13: 9780801872426
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"