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This article proposes a critical framework for the editorial program “European travelers and the Asian natural world,” highlighting that the systematic contacts between the Portuguese (and, soon after, other Europeans) and the Asian world from the late fifteenth century onward produced enduring impa...

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Published in:Review of Culture
Main Author: Rui Manuel Loureiro
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Published: Instituto Cultural de Macau October 2006
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Online Access:https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40020/3733
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