A nation upon the ocean sea : Portugal's Atlantic diaspora and the crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 / Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Studnicki-Gizbert, Daviken.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portuguese--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Portuguese.

Merchants--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Merchants.

Atlantic Ocean Region--Commerce--Spain--History.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Spain--Commerce--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews , Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. They formed a diasporic community known by contemporaries as the Portuguese Nation. By the early seventeenth century, this nation without a state had created a remarkable trading network that spanned the Atlantic, reached into the Indian Ocean and Asia, and generated millions of pesos that were use

Contents:

1. Portuguese nation and Spanish empire in the sixteenth century

2. Settling upon the seas : a maritime community in movement and formation

3. "Cada casa, un mundo" : the domestic foundation of a trading community

4. A vast machine : the nation's Atlantic trading networks

5. Representing the market : from day-to-day experience to the literature of commercial reform

6. The nation unraveled

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-236) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-15655-8

9786611156558

0-19-803911-5

1-4294-8698-8

OCLC:

476239477