Preface
1. Introduction: Revisiting Empires and Connecting Histories
Beginnings
2. Rethinking the Establishment of the Estado da India, 1498–1509
3. Italians, Corsicans, and Portuguese in the Indian Ocean
4. Unhappy Subjects of Empire, 1515–1530
Connections and Comparisons
5. Connecting the Iberian Empires, 1500–1640
6. Mughals, Ottomans, and Habsburgs: Some Comparisons
7. Iberian Roots of the British Empire
Representations
8. World Historians in the Sixteenth Century
9. Empires and Wonders
10. Early Modern Empires and Intellectual Networks
11. Asia Between and Beyond Empires
Bibliography
Index
Maps and Illustrations
Map 1. The Iberian Empires on a World Scale, 1580–1640
Map 2. The Central Habsburg and Ottoman domains, ca. 1550
Fig. 1. Arabic letter from the ruler of Kannur (Cannanore) to Antonio Carneiro in Portugal (1518), Torre do
Tombo, Lisbon
Fig. 2. Letter from the Tamil merchants of Melaka to the King of Portugal (1527), Torre do Tombo, Lisbon
Fig. 3. Text of the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon
Fig. 4. Representation of Portuguese fidalgos in Goa from Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Itinerario (1596)
Fig. 5. View of the mining centre of Potosi in Bolivia, by Bernard Lens (1715)
Fig. 6. World map from the Ottoman Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi (1730)
Fig. 7. Hunting exotic animals in America, from the Ottoman Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi (1730)
Fig. 8. Portuguese representation of a monster in Turkey, from Emblema vivente (1727)
Fig. 9. John Stafford, Asia, from an allegory of the continents (1625–35)
Fig. 10. Map of ‘Iqlīm Āsyā’ based on Katib Celebi’s Cihānnumā, printed by Ibrahim Muteferrika (1732)
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