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The British presence in Macau, 1635-1793 /

: The British presence in Macau, 1635-1793 /
Title: The British presence in Macau, 1635-1793 /
Author/Creator: Puga, Rogério Miguel.
University of Macau
Hong Kong University Press
Royal Asiatic Society
Andrade, Monica, translator
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Description: For more than four centuries, Macau was the center of Portuguese trade and culture on the South China Coast. Until the founding of Hong Kong and the opening of other ports in the 1840s, it was also the main gateway to China for independent British merchants and their only place of permanent residence. Drawing extensively on Portuguese as well as British sources, The British Presence in Macau traces Anglo- Portuguese relations in South China from the first arrival of English trading ships in the 1630s to the establishment of factories at Canton, the beginnings of the opium trade, and the Macartney Embassy of 1793. Longstanding allies in the west, the British and Portuguese pursued more complex relations in the east, as trading interests clashed under a Chinese imperial system and as the British increasingly asserted their power.
Note: "Originally published in Portuguese in 2009 as A presenca inglesa e as relacões anglo-portuguesas em Macau (1635-1793)"--Title page verso.
Originally published in Portuguese in 2009 by the Centro de História de Além-mar, University of Lisbon, and by Centro Cultural e Científico de Macau (Lisbon, Portugal) as "A presença inglesa e as relações anglo-portuguesas em Macau (1635-1793)" -- T.p. verso.
"English translation supported by the University of Macau" -- T.p. verso.
Subject: Macau (China : Special Administrative Region)--History--17th century.
Macau (China : Special Administrative Region)--History--18th century.
Portugal--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--Portugal.
Portugal--Colonies--History--Asia--17th century.
Portugal--Colonies--History--Asia--18th century.
Macau--History--17th century
Macau--History--18th century
Portugal--Foreign relations--Great Britain
Great Britain--Foreign relations--Portugal
Portugal--Colonies--History--Asia--17th century
Portugal--Colonies--History--Asia--18th century
Library URL: 991005112909706306