Migrating merchants : trade, nation, and religion in seventeenth-century Hamburg and Portugal / Jorun Poettering ; translated by Kenneth Kronenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poettering, Jorun, author.

Contributor:

Kronenberg, Kenneth, 1946- translator.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Merchants--Germany--Hamburg--History--17th century.

Merchants.

Merchants--Portugal--History--17th century.

Commerce--History--17th century.

Commerce.

History.

Germany--Hamburg.

Portugal.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2019]

Summary:

What impact did the cultural origins and religious backgrounds of the merchants in the early modern period have on their business activities? How did these people manage to integrate themselves into the foreign societies within which they lived and worked? In this book Jorun Poettering examines the circumstances of the merchants who traded between Hamburg and Portugal in the seventeenth century. Her study offers new insights into the history of migration and intercultural encounter as world became more interconnected.

Contents:

Part I: The Political and Legal Context

1. Economic and Political Trends

2. Alien Merchandise, Alien Merchants

3. Legal Provisions and the Formation of Nations

4. Consulates and Residencies

5. The Inquisition and the State

Part II: Migration, Life, and Trade

6. Diaspora, Migration, and Mobility

7. Social Origins and Social Advancement

8. Turnovers and Assets

9. Grain, Sugar, Wax, and Tobacco

10. The Cross-Border Infrastructure

Part III: Solidarity and Identity

11. Trust, Reputation, and Religion

12. Trading Networks, Family, and Nation

13. Merchant Organizations

14. The Portuguese Nation

15. Netherlanders and Hamburgers

Conclusion

Appendix.

Notes:

"Revised version of "Handel, Nation und Religion : Kaufleute zwischen Hamburg und Portugal im 17. Jahrhundert", published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110469936

3110469936

OCLC:

1050819651