LEADER 03224nam 22006853u 450 001 9910451863903321 005 20210114074059.0 010 $a1-281-15655-8 010 $a9786611156558 010 $a0-19-803911-5 010 $a1-4294-8698-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000476582 035 $a(EBL)415043 035 $a(OCoLC)476239477 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000208254 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11188774 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208254 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10243612 035 $a(PQKB)11010910 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415043 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000476582 100 $a20140113d2007|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA Nation upon the Ocean Sea$b[electronic resource] $ePortugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 210 $aOxford $cOxford University Press, USA$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-029190-7 311 $a0-19-517570-0 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aWith 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 606 $aMerchants 606 $aPortuguese 606 $aPortuguese$xHistory$zAtlantic Ocean Region 606 $aMerchants$xHistory$zAtlantic Ocean Region 606 $aSpain & Portugal$2HILCC 606 $aRegions & Countries - Europe$2HILCC 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aMerchants. 615 4$aPortuguese. 615 0$aPortuguese$xHistory 615 0$aMerchants$xHistory 615 7$aSpain & Portugal 615 7$aRegions & Countries - Europe 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 676 $a382.09469 700 $aStudnicki-Gizbert$b Daviken$0698683 702 $aStudnicki-Gizbert$b Daviken 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451863903321 996 $aA Nation upon the Ocean Sea$92523601 997 $aUNINA