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A Nation upon the Ocean Sea - Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 (Hardcover, New)
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A Nation upon the Ocean Sea - Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 (Hardcover, New)
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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. 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 used to bankroll the Spanish empire. A Nation Upon the Ocean
Sea traces the story of the Portuguese Nation from its emergence in
the late fifteenth century to its fragmentation in the middle of
the seventeenth and situates it in relation to the parallel
expansion and crisis of Spanish imperial
dominion in the Atlantic. Against the backdrop of this
relationship, the book reconstitutes the rich inner life of a
community based on movement, maritime trade, and cultural
hybridity. We are introduced to mariners and traders in such
disparate places as Lima, Seville and Amsterdam, their
day-to-day interactions and understandings, their houses and
domestic relations, their private reflections and public arguments.
This finaly-textured account reveals how the Portuguese Nation
created a cohesive and meaningful community despite the mobility
and dispersion of its members; how its
forms of sociability fed into the development of robust
transatlantic commercial networks; and how the day-to-day
experience of trade was translated into the sphere of Spanish
imperial politics of commercial reform basedon religious-ethnic
toleration and the liberalization of trade. A microhistory,
A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea contributes to our understanding of the
broader histories of capitalism, empire, and diaspora in the early
Atlantic.
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