- Hardcover: 319 pages
- Publisher: Asian Educational Services,India; New ed of 1927 ed edition (28 Feb 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 8120613147
- ISBN-13: 978-8120613140
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,993,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Written by G.A. Ballard, this book is the history of maritime trade and hostilities between the European powers themselves and between the successive European states and the states in India. Original sources of the Portuguese, Dutch, French and British historians were analyzed, compared and contrasted while attempting to give an unbiased history of it.Written in 1927 the book in divided into 14 chapters and it treats the subject chronologically: from the ancient navigators, to the arrival of the Europeans starting with the Portuguese continuing to entry of the Dutch and the Anglo-Dutch wars, the Anglo-French wars and the British supremacy. The book first appeared in the "Mariners Mirror", the quarterly journal of the society for Nautical Research. The book includes accounts of: King Manoel, Vasco da Gama, Alphonso Albuquerque, Admiral Coen, Commandore La Bourdonnains, Vice-Admiral Pocock, Pierre-Andre De Suffrew, Sir Edward Hughes, and King George V 19th century - Nineteenth century.
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