Revisiting Hormuz : Portuguese interactions in the Persian Gulf region in the early modern period / edited by Dejanirah Couto and Rui Manuel Loureiro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Couto, Dejanirah.

Loureiro, Rui

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Maritime Asia (Wiesbaden, Germany) ; v. 19.

Maritime Asia, 1863-6268 ; v. 19

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Relations.

Persian Gulf Region--Relations--Portugal.

Persian Gulf Region.

Portugal--Relations--Persian Gulf Region.

Portugal.

Persian Gulf Region--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

xv, 280 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (partly color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Portuguese interactions in the Persian Gulf region in the early modern period

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz : Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2008.

Language Note:

In English and French.

Summary:

The volume "Revisiting Hormuz", gathers the proceedings of a Conference organized in March 2007 by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, through its Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian in Paris. The year 2007, exactly five centuries after the Portuguese first landed on the island of Hormuz, seemed to the scientific coordinators Rui Manuel Loureiro and Dejanirah Couto a very appropriate moment to bring together a large group of specialists that could establish the current state of the art in field of the history of Portuguese interactions with Hormuz and the Persian Gulf region. The chronological borders of the Conference, quite naturally, were extended to the early decades of the 17th century, to include the final departure of the Portuguese from Hormuz in 1622 and subsequent developments. Although the focus of the Paris Conference was supposed to be history, in any of its political, social, economic or cultural variants, the complex nature of Portuguese interactions with Hormuz and Safavid Persia, that spanned for more than a century, and also the existence of an important monumental heritage of Portuguese origin in the Gulf area, made the presence of art historians, architects, and archaeologists desirable.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783447057318

3447057319

OCLC:

227017980