List of Tables
Preface
A Note on Spelling, Usage, and Currency
Introduction: Portugal's Asian Enterprise to 1580
Chapter 1. The Prudent King as Merchant-King, 1580-1598
Chapter 2. The Private Trade of the Carreira da India, 1580-1598
Chapter 3. A Complex Relationship: Carreira and Casado Trade, 1580-1598
Chapter 4. The Royal Monopoly and the Advent of European Competition on the Cape Route, 1599-1619
Chapter 5. Private and Company Trade
Chapter 6. The Zenith of the Carreira Trade, 1599-1619
Chapter 7. The Struggle for Asian Trade, 1599-1619
Chapter 8. Trade, Inquisition, and Economic Growth and Stagnation in Portugal
Chapter 9. War and Experimentation with the Cape Monopoly, 1620-1640
Chapter 10. Crisis of the Carreira da India, 1620-1640
Chapter 11. Private Trade in Asia: New Pressures, New Alternatives, 1620-1640
Conclusion: Portugal's Asian Enterprise in 1640
Appendix
Abbreviations
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index