Part I. Europe -- Captivity, redemption, and the birth of a Royal Council -- Kings, colonies, and councilors -- Part II. South America -- Centers and peripheries in the Luso-Brazilian world -- Gambling governors and gilded lead -- Part III. Asia -- One king, two crowns -- The case of the missing men.

Note: Part III (Asia) covers the history of Macau in the 17th-18th centuries, focusing on economic and social local networks in Macau & South China, and discussing the connection between Portuguese merchants and officials with the Guangdong & central Chinese imperial bureaucracy, while offering some references to the role of Jesuits and other missionaries.--Cf. Eugenio Menegon, EUCHINA