Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580–1640

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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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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Utgivningsdatum2008-03-31
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor360
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801887543

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List of TablesPrefaceA Note on Spelling, Usage, and CurrencyIntroduction: Portugal's Asian Enterprise to 1580Chapter 1. The "Prudent" King as Merchant-King, 1580-1598Chapter 2. The Private Trade of the Carreira da Índia, 1580-1598Chapter 3. A Complex Relationship: Carreira and Casado Trade, 1580-1598Chapter 4. The Royal Monopoly and the Advent of European Competition on the Cape Route, 1599-1619Chapter 5. Private and Company TradeChapter 6. The Zenith of the Carreira Trade, 1599-1619Chapter 7. The Struggle for Asian Trade, 1599-1619Chapter 8. Trade, Inquisition, and Economic Growth and Stagnation in PortugalChapter 9. War and Experimentation with the Cape Monopoly, 1620-1640Chapter 10. Crisis of the Carreira da Índia, 1620-1640Chapter 11. Private Trade in Asia: New Pressures, New Alternatives, 1620-1640Conclusion: Portugal's Asian Enterprise in 1640AppendixAbbreviationsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

In a superbly researched work, rich in provocative and revisionist interpretations, whose sources, ideas, and references will be mined by many scholars, Boyajian adopts a comparative approach to study Portuguese commercial links to Asia, reassess crown involvement in trade vis a vis private participation, place the Cape trade within the context of global trade, and throw new light on Portuguese merchant families. Canadian Journal of History Concentrates on the flourishing Portuguese private trade with Asia during the period of Spanish rule... A new turn in the historiography of European expansion. English Historical Review Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs illuminates complex trade and social networks within an emerging global system. It is essential reading for those concerned with the interplay of state goals and private enterprise, as well as the influence of the Inquisition on global trade in the early modern era. -- Joan Meznar Renaissance Quarterly 2008