Nation Upon the Ocean Sea - Portugal s Atlantic Diaspora Crisis of Spanish Empire, 1492 1640

Zusatztext Facinating...this book significantly expands our knowledge of Portugese New Christian merchants and their trading networks in the Atlantic world in the 1620s and 30s. for this reason, it will provide rich pickings, not just for scholars of early modern Iberia, but also for social and economic historians of early modern Europe. Klappentext By recovering the inner life of the Portuguese trade diaspora (1492-1640) the book explores the relations between mobility and community; domestic sociability and trade expansion; commercial experience and early capitalist ideology; and cultural hybridity, transnationalism, and the Spanish empire. Zusammenfassung By recovering the inner life of the Portuguese trade diaspora (1492-1640) the book explores the relations between mobility and community; domestic sociability and trade expansion; commercial experience and early capitalist ideology; and cultural hybridity, transnationalism, and the Spanish empire.

Product details

• Authors: Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, Daviken (Assistant Professor of Studnicki-Gizbert, Studnicki-Gizbert Daviken
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.01.2007
• EAN: 9780195175707
• ISBN: 978-0-19-517570-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; Portugal, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, maritime history, Atlantic Ocean, Economic history, CE period up to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Portugal