Renascent empire? (The House of Braganza and the quest for stability in portuguese monsoon Asia, ca.1640-1683)
Editorial AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9789053563823
- ISBN10 9053563822
- Type Book
- Pages 262
- Published 2000
- Bookbinding Cloth
Renascent empire? (The House of Braganza and the quest for stability in portuguese monsoon Asia, ca.1640-1683)
Editorial AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
Based on extensive archival research in Portugal, India, England, and France, this work provides the first monographic study of a crucial, yet hitherto ignored period in the history of Portugal's Asian empire: the years ca. 1640-1683. Ames' revisionist work demonstrates that, contrary to the traditional view of the inevitable decline and stagnation of the Estado da India after ca. 1640, these were years of innovative and dynamic reform which brought about the geo-political and economic stabilization of Portuguese Asia by 1683. The book details this fundamental shift in Crown policy toward Asia as initiated by Prince Regent Pedro of Braganza (1668-1702) and carried out most effectively by Viceroy Luis de Mendonca Furtado e Albuquerque.