02850nam 22005774a 450 991081957280332120200520144314.01-281-15655-897866111565580-19-803911-51-4294-8698-8(CKB)1000000000476582(EBL)415043(OCoLC)476239477(SSID)ssj0000208254(PQKBManifestationID)11188774(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208254(PQKBWorkID)10243612(PQKB)11010910(MiAaPQ)EBC415043(EXLCZ)99100000000047658220060316d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA nation upon the ocean sea Portugal's Atlantic diaspora and the crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 /Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (x, 242 pages) illustrations, maps0-19-029190-7 0-19-517570-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-236) and index.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 unraveledWith 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 usePortugueseAtlantic Ocean RegionHistoryMerchantsAtlantic Ocean RegionHistoryAtlantic Ocean RegionCommerceSpainHistorySpainCommerceAtlantic Ocean RegionHistoryPortugueseHistory.MerchantsHistory.382.09469Studnicki-Gizbert Daviken698683MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819572803321A nation upon the ocean sea4077934UNINA