Glenn J. Ames, Professor, received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1987 with a specialization in early modern Europe, French history, and the history of European expansion. He has received various awards including a Fulbright grant, fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Portuguese Ministry of Education, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon. Dr. Ames was a Leverhulme Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Bristol, U.K. and in 2002 was a Union Pacific Visiting Professor at the Center for Early Modern Europe at the University of Minnesota. To date, Dr. Ames has spent more than five academic years undertaking archival research in France, England, the Netherlands, Portugal, and India. He is Editor of H-Portugal on the H-Net Web Network as well as General Editor of the European Expansion and Indigenous Response Series with Brill Academic Publishing.
Contact Information:
Office: Tucker Hall 2111
Phone: 419-530-4067
Email: glenn.ames@utoledo.edu
Publications:
Books
Dr. Ames' books include: The Globe Encompassed: The Age of Eurpean Discovery, 1500-1700 (2007), Vasco da Gama: Renaissance Crusader (2005), Distant Lands and Diverse Cultures: the French Experience in Asia, 1600-1700 (co-edited with Ronald S. Love, 2003), Renascent Empire?: The House of Braganza and the Quest for Stability in Portuguese Monsoon Asia, ca. 1640-1683 (2000), Colbert, Mercantilism and the French Quest for Asian Trade (1996).
Articles
Dr. Ames' articles since 1992 include: "Pepper Dreams: The Compagnie Royale des Indies Orientales and the Malabar Coast, ca. 1660-1700," in Country Trade and European Empire in the Arabian Seas: 17th and 18th Centuries, edited by Rene Barndese (Forthcoming 2008); "The Province of the North: War, Trade and Urban Planning in an Age of Decline and rebirth, ca. 1600-1683," in Nodes of Empire: Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern Period, edited by Liam M. Brockey (Forthcoming 2008); "Brahmins and Christians: The Quest for Wealth and Social Power in the Portuguese Estado da India, ca. 1600-1700," edited by M. Torri, Proceedings of the Pavia International Conference on Unity and Diversity in India, (Forthcoming 2008), "The Portuguese Province of the North: "Creole" Power Groups in Urban Centers and their Hinderlands, ca. 1630-1680," Creole Societies in the Portuguese Colonial Empire: Proceedings of the Charles R. Boxer Centenery Conference, edited by Malyn Newitt and Philip Havik, (Bristol 2007); "The Aisan Trade Revoution of the Seventeenth Century Reconsidered," in Metahistory: History Questioning History: Festshrift in Honor of Teotonio R. de Souza, edited by Charles J. Borges and Michael N. Pearson (Lisbon 2007); "The Straits of Hurmuz Fleets: Omani Portuguese Naval Rivalry and Encouners, c. 1660-1680," in International Essays on Military History: Naval History, edited by Jan Glete (Aldershot 2005); “’The Laws of God’: The Role of Religion in the Transfer and Consolidation of Bombay, ca. 1661-1687,” The Historical Journal (Spring 2003); “Fama e Reputação: The Provincial Portuguese Nobility, The Challenges of the Restoration Era, and Imperial Service in the Estado da India, ca. 1661-1683,” The Journal of Early Modern History, 6, 1 (2002); “Serving God, Mammon, or Both?: Religious vis-à-vis Economic Priorities in the Portuguese Estado da India, ca, 1600-1700,” The Catholic Historic Review, LXXXVI, No 2 (April 2000); “The Economy of Portuguese Asia after 1640: The Carreira da India during the Regency of Prince Pedro of Braganza,” Proceedings of the International Conference ‘Vasco da Gama and India’ edited by João Pedro Garcia (1999); “An African Eldorado?: The Portuguese Quest for Wealth in Mozambique and the Rios de Cuama, ca. 1661-1683,” International Journal of African Historical Studies, 31, No. 1 (1998); “The Straits of Hurmuz Fleets: Omani-Portuguese Naval Rivalry and Encounters, ca. 1660-1680,” The Mariner’s Mirror, LXXXIII (November, 1997); “Pedro II and the Estado da India: Braganzan Absolutism and Overseas Empire,” Revista Portuguesa de Histόria, XXXII (1997-1998); “Spices and Sulphur: Some New Evidence on the Quest for Economic Stabilization in Portuguese Monsoon Asia, 1668-1682,” The Journal of European Economic History, XXIV (1995); “The Goa Rendas and the Case for Indigenous Dominance in the Economy of Portuguese Monsoon Asia, 1600-1700,” in Fra Spazio e Tempo: Studi in Onore di Luigi De Rosa, edited by Ilaria Zilli (Naples, 1995); and “An Elusive Partner: Portugal and Colbert’s Projected Asian Alliance, 1669-1672,” Revista Portuguesa de Histόria XXVIII (1993).