The Germans, the Portuguese and India

The Germans, the Portuguese and India
Author: Pius Malekandathil
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

" German merchants emerged as influential commercial partners of the Portuguese in the 16th Century. The trade in spices and precious metals was not the only line pursued by them in India, they also collected precious stones and ventured far into the interior of the country. The present study illustrates these activities which have so far not received adequate attention. Moreover, not all of the Germans coming to India were merchants, there were also many soldiers, among them artillerists (bombardeiros) who had skills to offer which had obviously not yet been acquired by the Portuguese military. The news about India which German merchants and soldiers conveyed to their home country contributed to the increase of German knowledge of the world. "

Europe’s India

Europe’s India
Author: Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2017-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674972260

When Portuguese explorers first arrived in India, the maritime passage initiated an exchange of goods as well as ideas. European ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars who followed produced a body of knowledge that shaped European thought about India. Sanjay Subrahmanyam tracks these changing ideas over the entire early modern period.

Shipbuilding, Navigation and the Portuguese in Pre-modern India

Shipbuilding, Navigation and the Portuguese in Pre-modern India
Author: K.S. Mathew
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2017-08-09
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1351588338

India, especially coastal India, has a long history of shipbuilding and navigation dating back to the Indus Valley Civilization. Indian shipwrights and the labour force associated with various aspects of shipbuilding excelled in naval architecture. Their native wisdom was adopted by the Europeans engaged in shipbuilding in coastal India. Similarly some of the techniques of navigation followed by Indians were emulated by the European mariners. A comprehensive peep into the science of naval architecture and navigation is attempted in this work making a comparative study of Indian and Portuguese architecture and navigation. The volume discusses the importance of the timber grown in the monsoon-fed forests of the Malabar coast and its appreciation by the Portuguese shipwrights and theoreticians of naval architecture. The work shows that increase of the tonnage of ocean-going vessels and the appearance of hostile mariners from other quarters of Western Europe compelled the Portuguese to adopt enhanced technology in naval architecture and navigation. The fact that the use of canons for defence against intruders made the Portuguese vessels stronger than the Indian ships which, for centuries, were accustomed to considerably peaceful navigation is also brought out in this much anticipated volume.

The Europeanization of Portuguese Democracy

The Europeanization of Portuguese Democracy
Author: Nuno Severiano Teixeira
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Democracy
ISBN: 9780880339469

Driven primarily by political concerns to secure democracy, Portugal's accession to the EU in 1986 also served as a catalyst for dynamic economic development following a complex process of democratization and the decolonization of Europe's last empire. This book analyses how the European Union has helped shape the political process in Portugal on key institutions, elites, and its citizen's attitudes.

The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre

The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre
Author: Peter Borschberg
Publisher: NUS Press
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9971697831

Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the turn of the 17th century. He left history a substantial autobiography written in Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid. Written in the form of a picaresque tale, with an acute eye for the cultures he encountered, the memoirs tell the story of his adventures in the trading centres of the day: Melaka, Ayutthaya, Cambodia, Patani, Pahang, Johor, Brunei and Manila. Narrowly escaping death several times, De Coutre was inevitably drawn into dangerous intrigues between the representatives of European power, myriad fortune hunters and schemers, and the rulers and courtiers in the palaces of Pahang, Patani, Siam and Johor.

Spanish and Portuguese 16th Century Books in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts

Spanish and Portuguese 16th Century Books in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts
Author: Harvard College Library. Department of Printing and Graphic Arts
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Houghton Library : Harvard College Library
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1985
Genre: Bibliographical exhibitions
ISBN:

Nearly all the Spanish and Portuguese books in the Department were collected and given to the Library by the late Philip Hofer, founding Curator of the Department. They reflect his personal taste and his awareness of the historical importance of such a collection - foreword.

Unwanted Neighbours

Unwanted Neighbours
Author: Jorge Flores
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199093687

In December 1572 the Mughal emperor Akbar arrived in the port city of Khambayat. Having been raised in distant Kabul, Akbar, in his thirty years, had never been to the ocean. Presumably anxious with the news about the Mughal military campaign in Gujarat, several Portuguese merchants in Khambayat rushed to Akbar’s presence. This encounter marked the beginning of a long, complex, and unequal relationship between a continental Muslim empire that was expanding into south India, often looking back to Central Asia, and a European Christian maritime empire whose rulers considered themselves ‘kings of the sea’. By the middle of the seventeenth century, these two empires faced each other across thousands of kilometres from Sind to Bijapur, with a supplementary eastern arm in faraway Bengal. Focusing on borderland management, imperial projects, and cross-cultural circulation, this volume delves into the ways in which, between c. 1570 and c. 1640, the Portuguese understood and dealt with their undesirably close neighbours—the Mughals.

Portuguese Cochin and the Maritime Trade of India, 1500-1663

Portuguese Cochin and the Maritime Trade of India, 1500-1663
Author: Pius Malekandathil
Publisher: Manohar Publishers
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788173044069

The Central Purpose Of This Study Is To See What Role Did Cochin, The First Political Headquarters Of The Estado Da India Till 1530 And Later Their Commercial Capital, Play In Organizing The Maritime Trade Of India And How Its Trade Contributed To The Building Up Of The Universal Empire Of The Lusitanians. Asian Trade And Indo-European Trade Are Discussed In Detail Laying Emphasis On Merchants, Routes, Licences, Monopoly, Contrats, Trade Voyages And Smuggling.

Assembling the Tropics

Assembling the Tropics
Author: Hugh Cagle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2018-09-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107196639

This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.