The Portuguese in India (The New Cambridge History of India)

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:M. N. Pearson

页数:204

出版时间:2006-11-02

价格:USD 45.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780521028509

丛书系列:The New Cambridge History of India

图书标签:英文版历史印度

The Portuguese were the first European imperial power in Asia. Dr Pearson's volume of their history is a clear account of their activities in India and the Indian Ocean from the sixteenth century onwards written squarely from an Indian point of view. Laying particular stress on social, economic and religious interaction between Portuguese and Indians, the author argues that the Portuguese in fact had a more limited impact on everyday life in India than is sometimes supposed. Their imperial effort was characterized throughout more by reciprocity and interaction than by any unilateral imposition of Portuguese mores and political structures. The book as a whole has a significance well beyond its ostensible subject since it illuminates a whole range of more general historical themes including religious conversion, race relations, the nature of pre-modern society and early colonialism, and the very beginnings of the world economy.