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

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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Studnicki-Gizbert, Daviken
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.