Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs, 1580-1640

ISBN-13: 9780801887543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 360 str.

Jamesc Boyajian

Opis

This fascinating history reassesses the consequences of Portugal's flourishing private trade with Asia, including increased tensions between the growing urban merchant class and the still-dominant landed aristocracy. James C. Boyajian shows how Portuguese-Asian commerce formed part of a global trading network that linked not only Europe and Asia but also--for the first time--Asia, West Africa, Brazil, and Spanish America. He also argues that, contrary to previous scholarly opinion, nearly half of the Portuguese-Asian trade was controlled by New Christians--descendants of Iberian Jews forcibly converted to Christianity in the 1490s.

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