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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 p.) : ill., maps.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- By recovering the inner life of the Portuguese trade diaspora (1492-1640), this 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.
- 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:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC:
- 65521594
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