Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, Vol. 2
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Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, Vol. 2

Culture and Identity in the Luso-Asian World: Tenacities & Plasticities

Herausgeber: Jarnagin, Laura
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In 1511, a Portuguese expedition under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque arrived on the shores of Malacca, taking control of the prosperous Malayan port-city after a swift military campaign. Portugal, a peripheral but then technologically advanced country in southwestern Europe since the latter fifteenth century, had been in the process of establishing solid outposts all along Asia's littoral in order to participate in the most active and profitable maritime trading routes of the day. As it turned out, the Portuguese presence and influence in the Malayan Peninsula and elsewhere in continent...