CREOLIZATION AND DIASPORA IN THE
PORTUGUESE INDIES.
THE SOCIAL
WORLD OF AYUTTHAYA, 1640-1720.
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Abstract.
The issue of decline in the wake of a short-lived but intense golden age of the
Portuguese Empire in the East has been a very difficult...
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CREOLIZATION AND DIASPORA IN THE
PORTUGUESE INDIES.
THE SOCIAL
WORLD OF AYUTTHAYA, 1640-1720.
[TITLE PAGE]
Abstract.
The issue of decline in the wake of a short-lived but intense golden age of the
Portuguese Empire in the East has been a very difficult one for Portuguese
historiography traditionally to confront, although recently voices have called for a
reappraisal, arguing that it is possible to perceive something of a renascence or a
`second wave’ under the House of Braganza between 1640-1683, with contemporaries
even entertaining parallels to Emperor Trajan’s rejuvenation of the decrepit Roman
empire (98-117 A.
D.
).
Indeed, rather than seeing desperate communities of expatriated
Europeans clinging on to ever receding territorial landholdings, attention can be drawn
to visions of population movements consolidating and invigorating existent colonies,
with bold plans to move large numbers of Indians into Mozambique, to send exiled
Portuguese to populate Solor, alongside the ad-ho
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