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Gunpowder, Explosives and the State
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

Gunpowder, Explosives and the State

Gunpowder studies are still in their infancy despite the long-standing civil and military importance of this explosive since its discovery in China in the mid-ninth century AD. This volume is the first to develop the implications of the subject, not just in the sense of relating it to changing military technologies, but in that of seeing the securing of gunpowder supplies as fundamental to the power of the state and imperial pretensions.

Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1002

Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1869
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.

Goa and the Revolt of 1787
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Goa and the Revolt of 1787

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Trade and Finance in Portuguese India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Trade and Finance in Portuguese India

This work marks a sharp departure from the predominant Eurocentric emphasis in Indo Portuguese studies, on the sixteenth century Portuguese trade in the Carreira da India. Such an approach unjustly dismisses the subsequent centuries as periods of no commercial consequence to the Estado da India and Portugal and relegates to an un important level the significance of the privately operated intra Asian trade. The evidence gathered and their argument of this book challenges such prevailing stereo types. Based on a wide range on archival sources in India, Portugal and England, this study unravels the existence of a thriving native operated country trade, in 'the splendid' and 'the trifling' that emanated from Portuguese India in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It not only took advantage of the vulnerability displayed and the animation efforts undertaken by the Estado da India and the metropolis but also learned to function through 'crevices' under the growing British hegemony--

Calcutta Review
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 472

Calcutta Review

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Calcutta Review
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 474

The Calcutta Review

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1883
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 712

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1968
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Studies in Indian History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Studies in Indian History

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Memorias sobre as possessões portuguezas na Asia
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 220

Memorias sobre as possessões portuguezas na Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1859
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Goa and Portugal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Goa and Portugal

Collection of twenty-one papers presented at an international symposium on the theme "cultural relations between Portugal and Goa" at the University of Cologne, 29 May-2 June 1996; chiefly covers the 16th-18th centuries.