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COSTA (Constancio Roque da). HISTÓRIA das Relações Diplomáticas de Portugal no Oriente. Lisboa. 1895. - COSTA (Constancio Roque da) HISTÓRIA das Relações Diplomáticas de Portugal no Oriente . Lisboa: Livraria Ferin, 1895. 114 pp.; 250 mm. A study on the history of Portuguese diplomacy in the East, from Vasco da Gama's voyage to the government of D. João de Castro (1498-1548), organized into chapters corresponding to the successive governors and viceroys of India: Gama and Cabral, Almeida, Albuquerque, Albergaria, Sequeira and Duarte de Meneses, Gama, Henrique de Meneses, Lopo Vaz and Nuno da Cunha, Garcia de Noronha, Estêvão da Gama and Martim Afonso, and finally, Castro. In the introduction, the author clarifies that the oldest available diplomatic documents date only from the government of Afonso de Albuquerque, so the first two chapters are limited to following the chroniclers' accounts; only from Albuquerque onwards is a proper documentary study possible. The treaties and conventions are summarized with great precision, sometimes reproducing the text itself, at the expense of readability but in favor of scientific rigor. The particular interest of the work lies in its contribution to the study of diplomatic history and the constitution of modern international law: the author argues that, in a period when the principles of European international law were not yet consolidated, the treaties concluded by the Portuguese with the Eastern princes sanctioned doctrines that would only later enter European public law, namely the system of capitulations, the principle of extradition of criminals, and the practice of manumission of converted slaves. Estimated. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate