

An edition of A Nation upon the Ocean Sea (2006)
Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640
By Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert
Publish Date
December 8, 2006
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Language
eng
Pages
256
Description:
By recovering the inner life of the Portuguese trade diaspora (1492-1640), this book explores the relations between mobility and community; domestic sociability and trade expansion; commercial experience and early capitalist ideology; and cultural hybridity, transnationalism, and the Spanish empire.
subjects: Commerce, History, Merchants, Portuguese, Spain, commerce, Spain, history
Places: Atlantic Ocean Region, Spain