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Decay, Defeat, or Renascent Empire?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

Ernst Van Veen
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In his review of my doctoral thesis on the Portuguese decline in Asia Timothy J. Coates expresses amazement that so little time was spent in the archives or on the old historiography on Portuguese Asia and that I largely relied on the work of modern authors who did. My explanation for this well considered omission is quite simple: after the uncovering of so many new data by excellent historians it was about time to take a step back to see whether the many existing intersections through the archives, that had the Portuguese-Spanish-Dutch triangle as a subject, could be interrelated. I think the final conclusions were worth the effort.

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Itinerario , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , July 2002 , pp. 127 - 129
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 2002

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1 van Veen, Ernst, Decay or Defeat? An Inquiry into the Portuguese Decline in Asia 1580–1645 (Leiden 2000). Reviewed byGoogle ScholarCoates, Timothy J. in Itinerario 25/3–4 (2001) 237–238CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Ames, Glenn J., Renascent Empire ? The House qfBraganza and the Quest of Stability in Portuguese Monsoon Asia, 1640–1683 (Amsterdam 2000).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Barendse, R.J., The Arabian Seas 1640–1700 (Leiden 1998) 282. Revised version:Google ScholarArabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century (Armonk, N.Y. 2001)Google Scholar.

4 For a summary of the orcamentos see Veen, Van, Decay or Defeat?, 257.Google Scholar For 1686 see Barendse, , Arabian Seas, 284–285.Google Scholar In particular the revenue of 1634, produced by A.R. Disney, appears suspect without a considerable rise in Goa revenues. Pearson, M.N., ‘Indigenous Dominance in a Colonial Economy: The Goa Rendas, 1600–1670’, Mare Luso-Indicum 2 (Geneve/Paris 1973) 61–73Google Scholar and Matos, Artur Teodoro de, Na Rota da India. Estudos de Historia da expansao Portuguesa (Macao 1994) 61–81,Google ScholarPearson, M.N., ‘Indigenous Dominance in a Colonial Economy: The Goa Rendas, 1600–1670’, Mare Luso-Indicum 2 (Genève/Paris 1973) 61–73Google Scholar and Matos, Artur Teodoro de, Na Rota da India. Estudos de História da expansão Portuguesa (Macao 1994) 61–81, offer a logical solution to this problem.Google Scholar