Teddy Sim Y.H., Ph.D in History, University of Wollongong, is a Lecturer at the Institute of Education in Nanyang Technological University. His research interest is in the area of the Portuguese colonial presence in the Indian Ocean and the Far East in the eighteenth century on which he has written a few articles.

• General Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsForwardList of MapsList of TablesList of Abbreviations1. The Subject Field2. The Portuguese Empire on the Eve of the eighteenth CenturyRestoration and the Empire AfterConstraints of Distance and TechnologyInput of and Linkages to Brazil3. Leadership from Lisbon to GoaRoyal Court of João VEarly Baroque Administration: Tracking the Overseas CouncilViceregal Institution 4. Diplomacy and WarMixed Outcomes of DiplomacyAlternative Instrument of WarTheatres beyond the Indian Sub-Continent5. Commercial Challenges for the Eastern EmpireTrade Activities of the Estado and ConflictsAct of Balanced BudgetingCalculus of Mozambique in the Economic Revival6. Imperial Power through Culture and Religion“Civilizing Mission” via Language and CustomsProselytising Enterprises through State-Sponsored MissionariesChallenges at the Imperial Periphery of Timor7. Chapter SevenBeginning of a Reversal?Sowing the Seeds of the Impending ‘New Conquests’Efforts in Commercial RevivalJoão V’s Demise and the Ascension of José I8. ConclusionsAppendicesGlossaryList of Governors and Viceroys 1668-1757BibliographyIndex

"A welcome addition to the existing literature on the history of the Portuguese expansion in the East."- Stephen Jeyaseela (Visva-Bharati University, India), in Journal of the Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 7 Nos.1-2 Jan-Dec 2012, pp. 221-23

Teddy Sim Y.H., Ph.D in History, University of Wollongong, is a Lecturer at the Institute of Education in Nanyang Technological University. His research interest is in the area of the Portuguese colonial presence in the Indian Ocean and the Far East in the eighteenth century on which he has written a few articles.

• General Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsForwardList of MapsList of TablesList of Abbreviations1. The Subject Field2. The Portuguese Empire on the Eve of the eighteenth CenturyRestoration and the Empire AfterConstraints of Distance and TechnologyInput of and Linkages to Brazil3. Leadership from Lisbon to GoaRoyal Court of João VEarly Baroque Administration: Tracking the Overseas CouncilViceregal Institution 4. Diplomacy and WarMixed Outcomes of DiplomacyAlternative Instrument of WarTheatres beyond the Indian Sub-Continent5. Commercial Challenges for the Eastern EmpireTrade Activities of the Estado and ConflictsAct of Balanced BudgetingCalculus of Mozambique in the Economic Revival6. Imperial Power through Culture and Religion“Civilizing Mission” via Language and CustomsProselytising Enterprises through State-Sponsored MissionariesChallenges at the Imperial Periphery of Timor7. Chapter SevenBeginning of a Reversal?Sowing the Seeds of the Impending ‘New Conquests’Efforts in Commercial RevivalJoão V’s Demise and the Ascension of José I8. ConclusionsAppendicesGlossaryList of Governors and Viceroys 1668-1757BibliographyIndex

"A welcome addition to the existing literature on the history of the Portuguese expansion in the East."- Stephen Jeyaseela (Visva-Bharati University, India), in Journal of the Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 7 Nos.1-2 Jan-Dec 2012, pp. 221-23

Teddy Sim Y.H., Ph.D in History, University of Wollongong, is a Lecturer at the Institute of Education in Nanyang Technological University. His research interest is in the area of the Portuguese colonial presence in the Indian Ocean and the Far East in the eighteenth century on which he has written a few articles.

• General Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsForwardList of MapsList of TablesList of Abbreviations1. The Subject Field2. The Portuguese Empire on the Eve of the eighteenth CenturyRestoration and the Empire AfterConstraints of Distance and TechnologyInput of and Linkages to Brazil3. Leadership from Lisbon to GoaRoyal Court of João VEarly Baroque Administration: Tracking the Overseas CouncilViceregal Institution 4. Diplomacy and WarMixed Outcomes of DiplomacyAlternative Instrument of WarTheatres beyond the Indian Sub-Continent5. Commercial Challenges for the Eastern EmpireTrade Activities of the Estado and ConflictsAct of Balanced BudgetingCalculus of Mozambique in the Economic Revival6. Imperial Power through Culture and Religion“Civilizing Mission” via Language and CustomsProselytising Enterprises through State-Sponsored MissionariesChallenges at the Imperial Periphery of Timor7. Chapter SevenBeginning of a Reversal?Sowing the Seeds of the Impending ‘New Conquests’Efforts in Commercial RevivalJoão V’s Demise and the Ascension of José I8. ConclusionsAppendicesGlossaryList of Governors and Viceroys 1668-1757BibliographyIndex

"A welcome addition to the existing literature on the history of the Portuguese expansion in the East."- Stephen Jeyaseela (Visva-Bharati University, India), in Journal of the Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 7 Nos.1-2 Jan-Dec 2012, pp. 221-23