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A Nation upon the Ocean Sea - Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 (Paperback)
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A Nation upon the Ocean Sea - Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 (Paperback)
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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 finely-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 as merchants of the Portuguese
Nationtook up the pen to advocate a program of commercial reform
based on 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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