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Sources on Pre-1800 Asian History in Portugal and Spain

Itinerario, 1995

Let me start these notes with two caveats. First, apart from the many un-published sources on the... more Let me start these notes with two caveats. First, apart from the many un-published sources on the Iberian involvement in Asia there is also a great number of published sources available. This is in itself a considerable repository of knowledge on Asia. Most of these source publications, though, have appeared in journals that are often riot available outside the Iberian peninsula. Though H. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India (New Delhi 1982) provides a considerable service to the researcher, a bibliography of Portuguese source-publications is still in urgent need. Second, I should emphasize that for this report I have not been able to look at the Spanish records on the Philippines.

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Arabian Seas 1700 - 1763

Arabian Seas 1700 - 1763, 2009

Drawing on a vast range of sources Arabian Seas 1700 - 1763 is as much a sweeping overview as a d... more Drawing on a vast range of sources Arabian Seas 1700 - 1763 is as much a sweeping overview as a detailed examination of the maritime world of the western Indian Ocean in the eighteenth century. It deals with the various states, economies and societies there and with the impact of the early phase of European colonialism on them.

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The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century (review)

Journal of World History, 2004

nations as an object of philological and, later, historical, study. A reliance on Tacitus’s Germa... more nations as an object of philological and, later, historical, study. A reliance on Tacitus’s Germania as a historiographical model produced problems from the start, according to Geary, because Tacitus relied less on Herodotus (whom Geary sees as a “pre-Orientalist” [p. 47] in his “value-neutral approach to the customs and peoples he observed” [p. 46]) than on Pliny the Elder and the subsequent Christian historiographical tradition that originated with Augustine and Jerome. It is Herodotus’s identification of peoples and tribes based on fluid geographic and cultural distinctions subject to change over time that Geary praises over Pliny’s insistence that peoples possessed eternal, essentially distinguishing characteristics. As well, Geary usefully provides a survey of the breakup of the Roman empire, arguing that this event as crucial to nationalist claims of primary acquisition. Again, he reiterates that historiography is at fault here, especially a narrative historiography that makes the continuity of an ethnic continuity its major theme. As a corrective, Geary disrupts this continuity by demonstrating the fluid nature both of peoples and the geographic territories they occupied. Rather than any real continuous link with the past, Geary posits a nominal one in which, despite “the constant shifting of allegiances, intermarriages, transformations, and appropriations, it appears that all that remained constant were names” (p. 118). Geary thus presents nationalism as a consequence of a production of its objects of study and opposes the position that ethnic groups “exist before intellectuals recognize them” (p. 18). While Geary intends this argument to work against essentialism, he theoretically denies the potential for nationalism to arise from popular sources. Wiebe’s book, then, serves as a productive foil for Geary’s, and vice versa. ernst gerhardt University of Alberta

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The Long Road to Livorno: The Overland Messenger Services of the Dutch East India Company in the Seventeenth Century

Itinerario, 1988

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Health Status and the Five-factor Personality Traits in a Nationally Representative Sample

Journal of Health Psychology, 2006

The authors' objective was to determine the association between the 'big-five' personality traits... more The authors' objective was to determine the association between the 'big-five' personality traits and mental and physical disorders among adults in the United States. The Midlife Development in the United States Survey, a nationally representative sample of 3032 adults ages 25-74, was used to determine the association between the five-factor traits of personality and common mental and physical disorders. Findings are consistent with and extend previous results showing that conscientiousness is associated with significantly reduced likelihood of a wide range of mental and physical disorders among adults in the general population, and inversely that neuroticism is associated with increased rates. Among adults with physical illnesses, associations were found between personality and likelihood of physical limitations, especially conscientiousness. These findings provide a framework upon which research on complex causal processes may proceed. Thus future research attention might profitably be directed to conscientiousness-relevant processes, such as adherence to health and treatment recommendations and internalization of healthy societal norms for sensible health-related behavior.

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History, Law and Orientalism under Portuguese Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century India

Itinerario, 2002

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Reflections on the Arabian Seas in the Eighteenth Century

Itinerario, 2001

... Given the great importance of those ports, it would be tempting to see (and some writers like... more ... Given the great importance of those ports, it would be tempting to see (and some writers like Kirthi Chaudhuri59 do perceive it somewhat ... the Mediterranean, which has been beautifully acclimatised to Asia by the late Dennys Lombart in his le carrefour Javanaise.m The cities ...

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