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DISNEY (A. R.). TWILIGHT of the Pepper Empire. Portuguese Trade in Southwest India in the Early Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. - DISNEY (A. R.) TWILIGHT of the Pepper Empire. Portuguese Trade in Southwest India in the Early Seventeenth Century . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. x, 220, [2] pp.: il.; 240 mm. Publisher's binding with dust jacket; soiled dust jacket. Academic study of Portuguese pepper trade in southwest India in the early seventeenth century, focusing on the decline of Portuguese commercial presence in Malabar. The author, Australian historian A. R. Disney, analyses the structural causes of the erosion of the Portuguese pepper monopoly in the face of Dutch and English competition.