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Improvising Empire: Portuguese Trade and Settlement in the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1700
Improvising Empire Portuguese Trade and Settlement in the Bay of Bengal 15001700
Author: 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 centur...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195625707
ISBN-10: 0195625706
Publication Date: 3/14/1991
Pages: 292
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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