Portuguese trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580-1640
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Portuguese trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580-1640
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, c1993
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"Johns Hopkins Paperback edition, 2008"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-337) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Preface
A Note on Spelling, Usage, and Currency
Introduction: Portugal's Asian Enterprise to 1580
Chapter 1. The "Prudent" King as Merchant-King, 1580-1598
Chapter 2. The Private Trade of the Carreira da India, 1580-1598
Chapter 3. A Complex Relationship: Carreira and Casado Trade, 1580-1598
Chapter 4. The Royal Monopoly and the Advent of European Competition on the Cape Route, 1599-1619
Chapter 5. Private and Company Trade
Chapter 6. The Zenith of the Carreira Trade, 1599-1619
Chapter 7. The Struggle for Asian Trade, 1599-1619
Chapter 8. Trade, Inquisition, and Economic Growth and Stagnation in Portugal
Chapter 9. War and Experimentation with the Cape Monopoly, 1620-1640
Chapter 10. Crisis of the Carreira da India, 1620-1640
Chapter 11. Private Trade in Asia: New Pressures, New Alternatives, 1620-1640
Conclusion: Portugal's Asian Enterprise in 1640
Appendix
Abbreviations
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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