The world of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 : studies in economic, social and cultural history / M.N. Pearson
Imprint
Aldershot : Ashgate, 2005
Descript
1 v. (various pagings) ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Economic and trade history: Spain and Spanish trade in Southeast Asia ; Brokers in western Indian port cities: their role in servicing foreign merchants ; Goa-based seaborne trade, 17th-18th centuries ; Asia and world precious metal flows in the early modern period ; Indians in east Africa: the early modern period -- Social and religious themes: Goa during the first century of Portuguese rule ; Conversions in South-east Asia: evidence from the Portuguese records ; The East African coast in 1498: a synchronic study -- Medical exchanges: Hindu medical practice in sixteenth-century western India: evidence from the Portuguese sources ; The thin end of the wedge: medical relativities as a paradigm of early modern Indian-European relations ; First contacts between Indian and European medical systems: Goa in the sixteenth century