From Lisbon to Goa, 1500-1750 : studies in Portuguese maritime enterprise
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From Lisbon to Goa, 1500-1750 : studies in Portuguese maritime enterprise
（Collected studies series, CS194）
Variorum, c1984
Available at 38 libraries
Note
Includes documents in Portuguese
Reprint of articles originally published 1934-1980
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
These articles deal with the functioning, and malfunctioning, of the Carreira da India, the round voyages made between Portugal and its possessions in India that began after Vasco da Gama had opened up the route round the Cape of Good Hope in 1497-99. On such voyages was the Portuguese colonial empire built, and these studies illustrate the conditions under which they operated - the ships, the crews, their navigation and their cargoes. For instance, details are given of the medicines carried on board and the hospital established at the way-station of MoAambique in an attempt to combat the perennial scourge of disease. The principal hazard, however, remained that of loss through shipwreck or enemy action, events all too common in the history of the Carreira, which are brought to life most vividly in the Portuguese literary classic, the HistA(3)ria TrA!gico-MarA tima; the early printed editions of such tales form the subject of two of the articles and the backdrop to much of the volume.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Preface
- The Carreira da India (Ships, men, cargoes, voyages)
- The principal ports of call in the 'Carreira da India' (16th-18th centuries)
- MoAambique Island and the 'Carreira da India'
- Portugeuse Roteiros, 1500-1700
- An introduction to the HistA(3)ria TrA!gico-MarA tima
- An introduction to the HistA(3)ria TrA!gico-MarA tima (1957): some corrections and clarifications
- On a Portuguese carrack's bill of lading in 1625
- Admiral JoAGBPo Pereira Corte-Real and the construction of Portuguese East-Indiamen in the early 17th century
- The naval and colonial papers of Dom AntA(3)nio de AtaA de
- The sailing-orders for the Portuguese East-Indiamen of 1640 and 1646
- Index.
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