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Decay, Defeat, or Renascent Empire?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

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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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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 2002

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