Actions for Portuguese enterprise in the East [electronic resource] : survival in the years, 1707-1757
Portuguese enterprise in the East [electronic resource] : survival in the years, 1707-1757 / by Teddy Sim
- Author
- Sim, Teddy
- Published
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- Physical Description
- xxv, 212 pages
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- Series
- Restrictions on Access
- Available to subscribing member institutions only.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One The Portuguese Empire in Asia -- ch. Two The Empire on the Eve of the Eighteenth Century -- Restoration and the Empire After -- Constraints of Distance and Technology -- Input of and Linkages to Brazil -- ch. Three Leadership from Lisbon to Goa -- Royal Court of Joao V -- Early Baroque Administration: Tracking the Overseas Council -- Viceregal Institution -- ch. Four Diplomacy and War -- Mixed Outcomes of Diplomacy -- Alternative Instrument of War -- Theatres beyond the Indian Sub-continent -- ch. Five Commercial Challenges of the Eastern Empire -- Trade Activities of the Estado and Conflicts -- Act of Balanced Budgeting -- Calculus of Mozambique in the Economic Revival -- ch. Six Imperial Power through Culture and Religion -- "Civilising Mission" via Language and Customs -- Proselytising Enterprise through State-Sponsored Missionaries -- Challenges at the Sub-imperial Periphery of Timor -- ch. Seven Beginning of a Reversal? 1741-57 -- Sowing the Seeds of the Impending `New Conquests' -- Efforts in Commercial Revival -- Joao V's Demise and the Ascension of Jose I -- ch. Eight Conclusions -- Appendices -- Glossary -- List of Governors and Viceroys 1668-1757.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9789004209855
- Note
- AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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