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Migrating merchants : trade, nation, and religion in seventeenth-century Hamburg and Portugal /
What impact did the cultural origins and religious backgrounds of the merchants in the early modern period have on their business activities? How did these people manage to integrate themselves into the foreign societies within which they lived and worked? In this book Jorun Poettering examines the...
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München :
De Gruyter Oldenbourg,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- Part I: The Political and Legal Context
- 1. Economic and Political Trends
- 2. Alien Merchandise, Alien Merchants
- 3. Legal Provisions and the Formation of Nations
- 4. Consulates and Residencies
- 5. The Inquisition and the State
- Part II: Migration, Life, and Trade
- 6. Diaspora, Migration, and Mobility
- 7. Social Origins and Social Advancement
- 8. Turnovers and Assets
- 9. Grain, Sugar, Wax, and Tobacco
- 10. The Cross-Border Infrastructure
- Part III: Solidarity and Identity
- 11. Trust, Reputation, and Religion
- 12. Trading Networks, Family, and Nation
- 13. Merchant Organizations
- 14. The Portuguese Nation
- 15. Netherlanders and Hamburgers
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index