The first part of this volume deals with the changes and continuities in historical approaches over the last fifty years, with three further sections focusing on initial contacts, formal presences, and informal presences. Emphasis has been placed on the major European players in Asia and Africa before 1800 - the Portuguese, Dutch and English, without neglecting the role played by the French, Spanish, Scandinavians and others.
Author(s): Anthony Disney
Series: An Expanding World, Vol. 4
Publisher: Routledge (Ashgate / Variorum)
Year: 1995
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Acknowledgements
General Editor’s Preface
Introductory Essay
PART ONE — ON INVESTIGATING AND UNDERSTANDING EUROPEAN PRESENCES: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL CHANGE AND CONTINUITY
1 On the Eighteenth Century as a Category in Indonesian History
2 Some Considerations on Portuguese Colonial Historiography
3 Retrospect on J.C. van Leur’s Essay on the Eighteenth Century as a Category in Asian History
PART TWO — ON BEGINNINGS: MAKING CONTACTS, CONFRONTING THE UNFAMILIAR AND SURVIVING
4 The European Approach to the Interior of Africa in the Eighteenth Century
5 New Data on European Mortality in West Africa: The Dutch on the Gold Coast, 1719-1760
6 Prince Henry and the Origins of European Expansion
7 Early Ming Images of the Portuguese
PART THREE — ON FORMAL PRESENCES: ORGANIZED SETTLEMENTS AND THE TREND TOWARDS DOMINION
8 Early English Trade and Settlement in Asia, 1602-1690
9 The Portuguese on the Zambesi: An Historical Interpretation of the Prazo System
10 Freehold Farmers and Frontier Settlers, 1657-1780
11 Economic and Political Expansion: The Case of Oudh
PART FOUR — INFORMAL PRESENCES: INDIVIDUAL ENTERPRISE AND MERGING IN
12 Exiles and Renegades in Early Sixteenth Century Portuguese Asia
13 Indian Merchants and English Private Interests: 1659-1760
14 Merchant in Royal Service: Constant Phaulkon as Phraklang in Ayuthaya, 1683-1688
15 European Exiles, Renegades and Outlaws and the Maritime Economy of Asia, c. 1500-1750
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