Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era

The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History

by Michael N. Pearson

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In Port Cities and Intruders , historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early modern period.

Genres: History

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 9, 1998

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative book, if a little too esoteric for the normal reader. The only issue I had is the structure, which would have been better off presenting information chronologically instead of its mixed thematic approach.

[Andrew Daniels · Rating 3 out of 5]

not bad
really only for researchers, this would be a boring read for any casual reader

Some good information, though a lot of fluff and a lot of points where it drifts