Humanities and Social Sciences

History Program

Staff Profiles

Dr Anthony Disney

Research interests: History of Portugal and the Portuguese empire before 1807 – especially the late sixteenth/early seventeenth century empire in maritime Asia.

Research Project

A history of Portugal and the Portuguese empire: beginnings to 1807.

Research Publications

Selected

• Twilight of the Pepper Empire: Portuguese Trade in Southwest India in the Early Seventeenth Century, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1978.
  
• Historiography of Europeans in Africa and Asia 1415-1800, Variorum, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 1995. (Editor with introductory essay).
  
• Vasco da Gama and the Linking of Europe and Asia, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2000. (Co-editor with Emily Booth).
  
• ‘First encounters in early Portuguese travel literature’ in The Paths of Multiculturalism. Travel Writings and Postcolonialism, ed. Maria Alzira Seixo, John Noyes, Graça Abreu and Isabel Moutinho, Edições Cosmos, Lisbon, 2000, pp. 293-301.
  
• ‘What was the Estado da Índia? Four contrasting images’, Indica, vol. 38, nos.1-2, March-September 2001, pp. 161-8.
  
• ‘From viceroy of India to viceroy of Brazil? The count of Linhares at court (1636-39), Portuguese Studies, vol. 27, 2001, pp. 114-29.
  
• ‘The Portuguese and Saint Helena’ in Portos, Escalas e Ilhéus no Relacionamento entre o Ocidente e o Oriente. Actas do Congresso Internacional Comemorativo do Regresso de Vasco da Gama a Portugal, co-ord. Avelino de Freitas de Meneses, vol. 1, Universidade de Açores/CNCDP, Lisbon 2001, pp. 213-38.
  
• ‘Scaling down and holding on: Life in Portuguese Tangier in the early seventeenth century’, in Vasco da Gama. Homens, Viagens e Culturas. Actas do Congresso Internacional, co-ord. Joaquim Romero Magalhães and Jorge Manuel Flores, vol. 2, CNCDP, Lisbon, 2001, pp. 145-61.
  
• ‘The fiscal reforms of Viceroy Linhares at Goa’, Anais de História de Além-Mar, vol. 3, 2002, pp. 259-75.
  
• ‘Charles Boxer as a biographer: a preliminary evaluation’, Anais de História de Além-Mar, vol.4, 2003, pp. 9-28.
  
• ‘The development during the reign of João III of communications between the Estado da Índia and Portugal via the Middle East’, in D.João III e o Império. Actas do Congresso Internacional do seu Nascimento, ed. Roberto Carneiro and Artur Teodoro de Matos, CHAM, Lisbon, 2004, pp 593-600.
  
• ‘The ceremonial induction of incoming viceroys at Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’, in Indo-Portuguese History-Global Trends, ed. Fátima da Silva Gracias, Celsa Pinto and Charles Borges, Goa, India, 2005, pp. 81-94.