George Bryan Souza

Region of Interest	South Asia
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Associate Professor (Adjunct)
Affiliation	University of Texas, San Antonio
Email	gbsouza@ktc.com
Mailing Address	Department of History University of Texas, San Antonio 508 Winged Foot Lane Kerrville, TX 78028 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 830-896-7049 fax: 830-257-0531
Countries of Specialization	China
Research Interests	Activities/Research experience & interests: My research experience is in early modern global economic history, maritime trade and European (Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and English) relations with Asia, early modern European history and its expansion, and colonial Iberian and Dutch society in Asia, Africa and America in the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. My present research interests and projects: The Colonial Port City and the Maritime Trade of Asia: Batavia and Cinnamon, Silver and Opium, 1684-1792. Oceans, Ideas and Empires: European Imperial Ideologies, the Law of the Seas, Global Strategy and Naval Warfare from Columbus to the Present.
Publications	The Survival of Empire: Portuguese Trade and Society in China and the South China Sea, 1630-1754, Cambridge University Press, 1986
Keywords	modern history ; global economy ; maritime trade ; Asia-Europe relations ; Dutch society ; ...