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Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs, 1580-1640

Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs, 1580-1640

Paperback

General Asian HistoryGeneral European History

ISBN10: 0801887542
ISBN13: 9780801887543
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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