ABSTRACT
The first part of this volume deals with the changes and continuities in historical approaches over the last fifty years, with three further sections focusing on initial contacts, formal presences, and informal presences. Emphasis has been placed on the major European players in Asia and Africa before 1800 - the Portuguese, Dutch and English, without neglecting the role played by the French, Spanish, Scandinavians and others.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|52 pages
On Investigating and Understanding European Presences: Historiographical Change and Continuity
part Two|73 pages
On Beginnings: Making Contacts, Confronting the Unfamiliar and Surviving
part Three|108 pages
On Formal Presences: Organized Settlements and the Trend Towards Dominion
part Four|75 pages
Informal Presences: Individual Enterprise and Merging in
