The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619
, by Pinto, Paulo Jorge De SousaNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9789971695705 | 9971695707
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/31/2011
Following the fall of the Melaka Sultanate in1511, the sultanates of Johor and Aceh emerged as major trading centers alongside Portuguese Melaka. Throughout the sixteenth century, a peculiar balance among the three powers became an important character of the political and economical life in the Straits of Melaka. Paulo Pinto uses a geopolitical approach to analyze the financial, political, economic and military institutions that underlay this triangular arrangement.