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Research Interests

My general research interests are in global maritime economic history (cross-cultural contacts, European relations with Asia, America and Africa) and early modern European history and its expansion (focusing on themes and comparisons in intellectual (history of ideas and imperial ideologies), environmental, commercial, and cultural history from about 1600 to 1800. While at Kyoto, I will be working on: “Silverization and Beyond: Interconnecting Maritime Trade, Exchange, and Expansion in Early Modern Asian Economies,” which focuses on directly interconnecting the expansion of the production of silver, other metals, and mediums of exchange, the increase in their circulation or exchange by maritime trade with the expansion in cash-crop agricultural or hand-craft production.

Academic Career

Education:

1972

B.A., History, Stanford University

1976

M.A., S.E. Asian Area Studies, SOAS, University of London

1981

D. Phil., History, Trinity College, Cambridge University

Affiliations:

2002 – present

Associate Professor (adjunct), Department of History, University of Texas, San Antonio

2003-present

Associate Member, Laboratoire “Etats et sociétés en péninsule Indochinoise,” École Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO)/École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)

2004-present

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, Ph.D. and M.A. program in the History of Portuguese Expansion and the History of Brazil

Awards and Fellowships:

April-July 2003

IIAS (International Institute for Asian Studies), Affiliated Fellow, Leiden University

August-November, 2004

American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS) Fellow

February-March 2006; April-June 2004

IAN/TT-FLAD Grant(s), Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, Portugal

September 2006; September 2003-March, 2004

Bernardo Mendel Fellow, Lilly Library, Indiana University

March 2006 - March 2007

Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

September – November 2007

Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island

January –April 2009

Fulbright Fellow, Macau, China

Books

1. A Sobrevivencia do Imperio: Os Portugueses na China (1630-1754), translated by Luisa Arrais, Publicações Dom Quixote, Lisboa, 1991.

1. The Survival of Empire: Portuguese Trade and Society in China and the South China Sea, 1630-1754, Cambridge University Press, in hardback, 1986 and in paperback, 2004.

Chapters in Books

1. “Maritime Trade and Politics in China and the South China Sea,” Michael N. Pearson and Ashin Das Gupta, eds., India and the Indian Ocean, Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1987, 317-330.

1. “Ballast Goods: Chinese Maritime Trade in Zinc and Sugar in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”, Dietmar Rothermund and Roderick Ptak, eds., Emporia, Commodities and Entrepreneurs in Asian Maritime Trade, c.1400-1750, Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 1990, 291-315.

1. “Commerce and Capital: Portuguese Maritime Losses in the South China Sea, 1600-1754”, A. T. de Matos and L.F.E. Reis Tomaz, eds., As Relações entre a Índia Portuguesa, a Ásia do Sueste e o Extremo Oriente, Actas do VI Seminário Internacional de História Indo-Portuguesa, Macau and Lisbon, 1993, 321-48.

1. “Portuguese Country Traders in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, c.1600,” Om Prakash, ed., European Commercial Expansion in Early Modern Asia, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997, 69-80.

1. “The Portuguese Merchant Fleet at Macao in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” Ernest van Veen and Leonard Blussé, eds., Rivalry and Conflict: European Traders and Asian Trading Networks in the 16th and 17th Centuries, Leiden: CNWS Publications, 2005, 342-369.

1. "Tingir de vermelho: o sapão da Ásia do Sueste nos séculos XVII e XVIII,” Mirabilia Asiatica, vol. 2, Jorge M. dos Santos Alves, Claude Guillot, Roderich Ptak, eds., Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag and Lisbon: Fundação Oriente, 2005, 21-35.

1. “Macau and the Estado da India: Colonial Administration, Administrators and Commerce,” invited contribution in Chinese in: Wu Zhiliang, Tang Kaijian and Jin Guo Ping, coordinators, Aomenshi Xinbian (New Studies on the History of Macau/Novos Estudos sobre a História de Macau), Macau: Fundação Macau, 2007.

1. “Developing Habits: Opium and Tobacco in the Indonesian Archipelago, c. 1619 - c. 1794,” James H. Mills and Patricia Barton, eds., Drugs and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication 1500-1930, London: Palgrave, 2007.

1. “The Vision of Riches: the Individual and the Political Economy of the Estado da India and of Asia in Fernão Mendes Pinto’s Peregrinação,” Jorge dos Santos Alves, ed., untitled conference proceedings volume, Lisbon: Fundação Oriente, 2008, forthcoming.

1. “The VOC’s Price Current in Asia: A Price History for Asian and European Commodities over the Long Eighteenth Century,” A.J.H. Latham, ed., untitled and unidentified publisher of this conference proceedings volume, forthcoming.

1. “The French connection: Indian cottons and their early modern technology,” Om Prakash, Giorgio Riello, Tirthankar Roy, and Kaoru Sugihara, eds., How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850, Leiden: Brill, scheduled for publication in September 2008, forthcoming.

Articles

1. “Portuguese Trade and Society in China and the South China Sea: A Research Report,” Itinerario 3:1 (1979): 64-73.

1. “Notes on the ‘Algemeen Rijksarchief’ and its Importance for the Study of Portuguese, Asian and Inter-Asian Maritime Trade,” Itinerario 4:2 (1980): 48-56.

1. “Portuguese Society in Macao and Luso-Vietnamese Relations, 1511-1751,” Boletim do Instituto Luis de Camões, 15:1-2 (1981): 68-114.

1. “Portuguese Country Traders in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, c.1600,” Moyen Orient et Ocean Indien, Paris, 1 (1984): 117-28.

1. “Country Trade and Chinese Alum: Raw Material Supply in Asia’s Textile Production in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” Revista da Cultura, 11 (2004): 136-153.

1. "Dyeing Red: S.E. Asian Sappanwood in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries;" in English and Portuguese, O Oriente, 8 (2004): 40-58.

1. “The Portuguese Merchant Fleet at Macao in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” Revista da Cultura, 13 (2005): 48-64.

1. “Portuguese Colonial Administrators and Inter-Asian Maritime Trade: Manuel de Sousa de Meneses and the Fateh Moula Affair,” Portuguese Studies Review, 12:2, (2004-2005): 25-62.

1. “Convergence before Divergence: Global Maritime Economic History and Material Culture,” The International Journal of Maritime History, 17:1 (June, 2005), 17-27.

1. “Early Global Encounters with Beauty: The Pacific and Indo-Atlantic exchanges between Asia and America,” Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Issue 72, 39:1 (2006): 13-29.

1. “Opium and the Company: Maritime Trade and Imperial Finances on Java, 1684-1796,” Modern Asian Studies, 2008, forthcoming

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