Cavafy's Alexandria

The studies brought together in this volume are concerned, directly or indirectly, with the Portuguese presence in India between about 1500 and 1650. They have been arranged into four groups of which the first, 'The Portuguese in India', includes pieces on the changing character of the empire in India and topics such as smugglers or the great famine of the early 1630s. A second group focuses on the life, career and background of the count of Linhares, before, during and after his term as viceroy at Goa, while the third consists of studies on travel and communications between India and Portugal, both by sea and by land. The collection concludes with essays on Charles Boxer as a biographer, and on Vasco da Gama's reputation for violence.