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The world of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 : studies in economic, social, and cultural history

Title
The world of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 : studies in economic, social, and cultural history / M.N. Pearson.
Author
Pearson, M. N. (Michael Naylor), 1941-
Publication
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2005.

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Description
1 volume (various pagings); 23 cm.
Summary
A collection of articles published between 1968 and 2001 which deal with a range of themes centring around the history of the Indian Ocean region, including the economic history of the area, social and religious themes, and medical exchanges between European settlers and the indigenous population.
Series Statement
Variorum collected studies series ; 813
Uniform Title
Collected studies ; CS813.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1500-1800
  • Economic history
  • Social conditions
  • Indian Ocean Region > History
  • Indian Ocean Region > Economic conditions
  • Indian Ocean Region > Social conditions
  • Indian Ocean Region
  • Indischer Ozean > Region
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I. Spain and Spanish trade in Southeast Asia -- II. Brokers in Western Indian port cities : their role in servicing foreign merchants -- III. Goa-based seaborne trade, 17th-18th centuries -- IV. Asia and world precious metal flows in the early modern period -- V. Indians in East Africa : the early modern period -- VI. Littoral society : the case for the coast -- VII. Goa during the first century of Portuguese rule -- VIII. Conversions in South-east Asia : evidence from the Portuguese records -- IX. The search for the similar : early contacts between Portuguese and Indians -- X. The Indian Ocean and the Red Sea -- XI. The East African coast in 1498 : a synchronic study -- XII. Hindu medical practice in sixteenth-century Western India : evidence from the Portuguese sources -- XIII. The Portuguese state and medicine in sixteenth-century Goa -- XIV. The thin end of the wedge : medical relativities as a paradigm of early modern Indian-European relations -- XV. First contacts between Indian and European medical systems : Goa in the sixteenth century.
ISBN
  • 0860789624
  • 9780860789628
LCCN
2004062694
OCLC
  • ocm56880266
  • 56880266
  • SCSB-14423415
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library