PROTHERO, George Walter (ed.)

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Portuguese Possessions in India. First edition of this confidential briefing produced for British delegates to post-war peace negotiations. We have traced only four institutional copies (British Library and the universities of Oxford, Minnesota, and New Brunswick).In spring 1917, the Foreign Office established a dedicated historical section under the direction of George Walter Prothero (1848-1922), a former president of the Royal Historical Society. Some 160 regional handbooks were prepared for internal circulation in blue wrappers. Like most other titles in the series, this handbook was reissued in a trade edition (without the accompanying maps) in 1920.

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