TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pearson, M.N.
TI  - The world of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 : : studies in economic, social and cultural history 
T2  -  Variorum collected studies series
SN  - 9781138493773
U1  - 909.09824 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - NewYork
PB  - Routledge
KW  - History
KW  - Indian Ocean Region
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - ocial conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 
Contents: Introduction; Economic and Trade History: Spain and Spanish trade in southeast Asia; Brokers in western Indian port cities: their role in servicing foreign merchants; Goa-based seaborne trade, 17th-18th centuries; Asia and world precious metal flows in the early modern period; Indians in East Africa: the early modern period. Social and Religious Themes: Littoral society: the case for the coast; Goa during the first century of Portuguese rule; Conversions in south-east Asia: evidence from the Portuguese records; The search for the similar: early contacts between Portuguese and Indians; Gateways to Africa: the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea; The East African coast in 1498: a synchronic study. Medical Exchanges: Hindu medical practice in sixteenth-century western India: evidence from the Portuguese records; The Portuguese state and medicine in sixteenth-century Goa; The thin end of the wedge: medical relativities as a paradigm of early modern Indian-European relations; First contacts between Indian and European medical systems: Goa in the sixteenth century. Index
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