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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819572803321

Autore

Studnicki-Gizbert Daviken

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-15655-8

9786611156558

0-19-803911-5

1-4294-8698-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

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

Disciplina

382.09469

Soggetti

Portuguese - Atlantic Ocean Region - History

Merchants - Atlantic Ocean Region - History

Atlantic Ocean Region Commerce Spain History

Spain Commerce Atlantic Ocean Region History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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