Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvii-xxix) and index.
Contents:
On the eighteenth century as a category in Indonesian history / J.C. van Leur -- Some considerations on Portuguese colonial historiography / C.R. Boxer -- Retrospect on J.C. van Leur's essay on the eighteenth century as a category in Asian history / P.J. Marshall -- The European approach to the interior of Africa in the eighteenth century / Robin Hallett -- New data on European mortality in West Africa : the Dutch on the Gold Coast / H.M. Feinberg -- Prince Henry and the origins of European expansion / Malyn Newitt -- Early Ming images of the Portuguese / K.C. Fok --Early English trade and settlement in Asia, 1602-1690 / D.K. Bassett -- The Portuguese on the Zambesi : an historical interpretation of the prazo system / Malyn Newitt -- Freehold farmers and frontier settlers, 1657-1780 / Leonard Guelke -- Economic and political expansion : the case of Oudh / P.J. Marshall -- Exiles and renegades in early sixteenth century Portuguese Asia / Maria Augusta Lima Cruz -- Indian merchants and English private interests : 1659-1760 / Bruce Watson -- Merchant in royal service : Constant Phaulkon as phraklang in Ayuthaya, 1683-1688 / Jurrien van Goor -- European exiles, renegades and outlaws and the maritime economy of Asia, c. 1500-1750 / G.V. Scammell.
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