Improvising Empire: Portuguese Trade and Settlement in the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1700 by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Improvising Empire: Portuguese Trade and Settlement in the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1700

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Improvising Empire: Portuguese Trade and Settlement in the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1700

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

292 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

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While the general outline of the history of Portuguese expansion in Asia is rather well-known, many areas that were hubs of trade and settlement have been only briefly studied. One of the most conspicuous of those is the Bay of Bengal, where the P...

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