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Autore |
Studnicki-Gizbert Daviken |
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Titolo |
A Nation upon the Ocean Sea [[electronic resource] ] : Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-15655-8 |
9786611156558 |
0-19-803911-5 |
1-4294-8698-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Merchants |
Portuguese |
Portuguese - History - Atlantic Ocean Region |
Merchants - History - Atlantic Ocean Region |
Spain & Portugal |
Regions & Countries - Europe |
History & Archaeology |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction: Ocean, Empire, Nation; Chapter One: Portuguese Nation and Spanish Empire in the Sixteenth Century; Chapter Two: Settling Upon the Seas: A Maritime Community in Movement and Formation; Chapter Three: ''Cada Casa, Un Mundo'': The Domestic Foundations of a Trading Community; Chapter Four: A Vast Machine: The Nation's Atlantic Trading Networks; Chapter Five: Representing the Market: From Day-to-Day Experience to the Literature of Commercial Reform; Chapter Six: The Nation Unraveled; Epilogue; Glossary; Appendix; Abbreviations; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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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 |
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