Portuguese colonial cities in the early modern world

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Contents: Introduction: nodes of empire, Liam Matthew Brockey. Part I Religion and Empire:: In the shadow of empire: Portuguese Jewish communities in the 16th century, Jose Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim The Jesuits and the political language of the city: riot and procession in early 17th-century Salvador da Bahia, Charlotte de Castelnau-L'Estoile Nagasaki: the early years of an early modern Japanese city, J.S.A. Elisonas. Part II Cities and Commerce: Mozambique island: the rise and decline of a colonial port city, Malyn Newitt The province of the North: continuity and change in an age of decline and rebirth, ca. 1571-1680, Glenn J. Ames Charity, ritual and business at the edge of empire: the MisericA(3)rdia of Macau, Isabel dos GuimarAGBPes SA!. Part III Politics of Empire: The king's processions: municipal and royal authority and the hierarchies of power in colonial Salvador, Stuart B. Schwartz Notes on a project for the city of Goa, Diogo Ramada Curto Sol oriens in occiduo: representations of empire and the city in early 18th-century Brazil, Kirsten Schultz Luanda: a colonial city between Africa and the Atlantic, 17th and 18th centuries, Catarina Madeira Santos Index.