The Shipwrecked Remainders of Europe's China Boom
The recent recovery of large quantities of porcelain from the South China seas highlights eighteenth-century Europe's insatiable desire for tableware from the Orient.
C.R. Boxer
Second Thoughts on the Anglo-Portugese Alliance 1661-1808
Port wine and a queen for England from Braganza - commercial and cultural links strengthened the alliance steadily during the Age of Reason.
Piracy in the South China Sea
By C.R. Boxer.
Tide of Empires
Decisive Naval Campaigns in the Rise of the West, Vol. I, 1481-1654 by Peter Padfield