This collection of 13 essays covers a range of topics concerning Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese merchants, and commodities and commerce in maritime Asia in the early modern period from c. 1585-1800. Written by a leading authority on global maritime economic history and the history of European expansion, each essay addresses a topic of fundamental im

Geoge Bryan Souza is affiliated with the Department of History, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA, and he has been recently a Mercator Guest Professorship at Tubingen University, Germany, a Fulbright in Macao, China, and among others: a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.