In the Indian Ocean in particular, the Portuguese governors, the ones who established the empire, they were people of their time, and they were relatively ruthless.

A giraffe from Malindi on the coast of East Africa being led into the imperial palace in Beijing in 1414; magnificent Chinese armadas plowing the Indian Ocean until the emperor decided to ban any ...

European Colonisation along the Indian Ocean. When the Portuguese rounded the Cape in the late 15th century, they entered what many have termed a Muslim Lake, dominated in the north by the Turkish ...

Object Details Author Casale, Giancarlo Notes Originally published: 2010. Contents Introduction : an empire of the mind -- Selim the navigator : 1512-1520 -- Ibrahim Pasha and the Age of ...

With great ingenuity, the Harvard historian Bose uses the story of the Indian Ocean from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century as the framework for a multidisciplinary history of ...

A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire Sugata Bose, . . Harvard Univ., $27.95 (333pp) ISBN 978-0-674-02157-0 ...