Renascent Empire?
The House of Braganza and the Quest for Stability in Portuguese Monsoon Asia, ca. 1640-1683
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
264 pages
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6-1/4 x 9-1/2
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© 2000
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 tradition-al 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 MedonHa Furtado e Albuquerque.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Priorities in the Reino, c. 1640-1683
II. Politics and Policies: Viceroys and Governors, c. 1661-1681
III. Christians: Saints and Sinners, c. 1640-1683
IV. Spices: The Carreira da India, c. 1640-1683
V. Administration: European Hierarchies and the Resiliency of Indigenous Structures, 1640-1683
VI. Foreign Policy: Diplomatic Relations with the Reis Vizinhos and European Rivals, 1640-1683
VII. An African Eldorado: The Quest for Wealth in Mozambique and the Rios de Cuama, c 1640-1683
Conclusion
Portuguese Asia, c. 1683
Bibliography
Notes
Index
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