A nation upon the ocean sea
Subtitle: Portugal's Atlantic diaspora and the crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640
By: Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780195175707; 9780195175691
Subjects: Portuguese -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History; Merchants -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History; Atlantic Ocean Region -- Commerce -- Spain -- History; Spain -- Commerce -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Portuguese nation and Spanish empire in the sixteenth century; title: 2. Settling upon the seas : a maritime community in movement and formation; title: 3. "Cada casa, un mundo" : the domestic foundation of a trading community; title: 4. A vast machine : the nation's Atlantic trading networks; title: 5. Representing the market : from day-to-day experience to the literature of commercial reform; title: 6. The nation unraveled