Migrating Merchants : Trade, Nation, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Hamburg and Portugal / Jorun Poettering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poettering, Jorun, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Merchants.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures and Tables

Introduction

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

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)

ISBN:

9783110470017

3110470012

9783110472103

3110472104

OCLC:

1083612664