Michael N. (Professor Emeritus, University of New South Wales) Pearson 
Port Cities and Intruders [EPUB ebook] 
The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

In Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early modern period.