Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs, 1580-1640 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780801887543)

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.

Author: Jamesc Boyajian
ISBN-10: 0801887542
ISBN-13: 9780801887543
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d