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Book The Portugal Trade

Download or read book The Portugal Trade written by H.E.S Fisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long considered the ways in which the expansion of English trade beyond Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries contributed to the growth of English overseas trade as a whole, and to the coming of the Industrial Revolution. Their concentration on trade between England and her own colonies has led them, however, to neglect the importance of trade with the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas. Dr Fisher’s examination of Anglo-Portuguese trade between 1700 and 1770, and of the commercial links between the English North American colonies and Portugal, thus gives a wider perspective to our knowledge of the English ‘Commercial Revolution’. This study, based on a wide range of primary sources in England and Portugal, analyses the impressive growth of English trade with Portugal to 1760 and its subsequent decline in the 1760s, particular attention being given to the role of the Brazilian market and Brazilian gold-mining in these movements. The business practice of the merchants engaged in the principal constituent branches of the trade—textiles, foodstuffs, wines, and gold—is made clear and compared, while the characteristic instability of international commerce is borne out in the examination of the seasonal and yearly fluctuations which took place. On a more general level, the concluding chapter explores the relationship between the Portugal trade and the development of the English economy during this period. This book was first published in 1971.

Book Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs  1580   1640

Download or read book Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs 1580 1640 written by James C. Boyajian and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Survival of Empire

Download or read book The Survival of Empire written by G. B. Souza and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original study of the Portuguese Empire in the East, the Estado da India, George Souza looks in detail at the activities of Macao. His aim is to enquire into the nature of Portuguese society in China and the South China Sea and explain why the political and economic activities of the Portuguese crown did not inhibit the growth of local entrepreneurial trade. He also examines the nature of Portuguese maritime trade in Asia and analyses the focal role of Macao as an adjunct to the Canton market. The operations of Portuguese private merchants, the so-called 'country traders', are described and tellingly assessed in the wider context of the economic development of China and Southeast Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Book The Portugal Trade

Download or read book The Portugal Trade written by H. E. S. Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sino Portuguese Trade from 1514 to 1644

Download or read book Sino Portuguese Trade from 1514 to 1644 written by Tianze Zhang and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1934 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trade and Finance in Portuguese India

Download or read book Trade and Finance in Portuguese India written by Celsa Pinto and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work marks a sharp departure from the predominant Eurocentric emphasis in Indo Portuguese studies, on the sixteenth century Portuguese trade in the Carreira da India. Such an approach unjustly dismisses the subsequent centuries as periods of no commercial consequence to the Estado da India and Portugal and relegates to an un important level the significance of the privately operated intra Asian trade. The evidence gathered and their argument of this book challenges such prevailing stereo types. Based on a wide range on archival sources in India, Portugal and England, this study unravels the existence of a thriving native operated country trade, in 'the splendid' and 'the trifling' that emanated from Portuguese India in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It not only took advantage of the vulnerability displayed and the animation efforts undertaken by the Estado da India and the metropolis but also learned to function through 'crevices' under the growing British hegemony--

Book The Portugal Trade

Download or read book The Portugal Trade written by Harold Edward Stephen Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sounds of Silence

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  • Author : João Pedro Marques
  • Publisher : ITESO
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781571814470
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book The Sounds of Silence written by João Pedro Marques and published by ITESO. This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... a significant contribution to the vast and rich international literature on abolitionism, its causes and consequences, main events and historical processes. Well-informed and up-to-date in relation to the most pressing debates on the abolition of slave trade, ...the study provides a much-needed counterpoint (and counterbalance) to an Anglocentric leaning that overwhelmingly dominates this field of studies." - e-Journal of Portuguese History "This book is the culmination of decades of careful research, and assumes an important place on a historiographical pitch steamrollered by an over-concentration on British perspectives." - European History Quarterly "This work elucidates, with clear prose and abundant evidence, a new and important finding: the top slave trading nation of the nineteenth century did not act only upon British will, but developed its own antislavery attitudes within a nationalistic context." - Enterprise & Society "His is a uniquely authoritative voice on abolition in Portugal, a far remove from the 'enlightened will of the masters' approach...that long dominated the historiography. The book is a spell-binding narrative with scholarship of the highest order. Marques is to be congratulated on breaking the silence surrounding the abolition of the slave trade of Portugal and bringing a Portuguese voice t6o international debates on abolition." - The International History Review "[Marques] offers an important contribution not only for those interested in the Atlantic slave trade but also enriches generally the transnationally or globally oriented historiography. " - H-Net, Clio-online Portugal was the pioneer of the transatlantic slave trade, the ruler of both Brazil and Angola - the all time champions of that trade -, and one of the last western countries to decree the abolition of slaving institutions. Paradoxically, and in spite of the overwhelming number of works devoted to the problems of slavery produced in recent decades, little was known about the way Portugal dealt with the twilight of the age of slavery and, most of all, with abolitionism. This book offers the first study of the abolition of the Portuguese slave trade, covering the period from the end of the eighteenth century to the mid-1860s, and bringing to life a dark and silenced corner in the history of the odious commerce. Based on a thorough examination of Portuguese and British historical sources - most of them never used before -, and on his awareness of the international scholarship in the field in which he writes, it investigates not only the Portuguese pro and anti-abolitionist attitudes but also the underlying ideologies, and whether and how those attitudes and ideologies changed over time and in the light of events in the political, economic and social spheres.

Book Portugal

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  • Author : Charles Henry Cunningham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Portugal written by Charles Henry Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka  1575 1619

Download or read book The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka 1575 1619 written by Paulo Jorge De Sousa Pinto and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the fall of the Melaka Sultanate to the Portuguese in 1511, the sultanates of Johor and Aceh emerged as major trading centers alongside Portuguese Melaka. Each power represented wider global interests. Aceh had links with Gujerat, the Ottoman Empire and the Levant. Johor was a center for Javanese merchants and others involved with the Eastern spice trade. Melaka was part of the Estado da India, Portugal's trading empire that extended from Japan to Mozambique. Throughout the sixteenth century, a peculiar balance among the three powers became an important character of the political and economical life in the Straits of Melaka. The arrival of the Dutch in the early seventeenth century upset the balance and led to the decline of Portuguese Melaka. Making extensive use of contemporary Portuguese sources, Paulo Pinto uses geopolitical approach to analyze the financial, political, economic and military institutions that underlay this triangular arrangement, a system that persisted because no one power could achieve an undisputed hegemony. He also considers the position of post-conquest Melaka in the Malay World, where it remained a symbolic center of Malay civilization and a model of Malay political authority despite changes associated with Portuguese rule. In the process provides information on the social, political and genealogical circumstances of the Johor and Aceh sultanates.

Book The Sugar Trade

Download or read book The Sugar Trade written by Daniel Strum and published by Stanford General Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated account of a key element of the early modern Atlantic world: the sugar trade linking Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands. The study seeks to illuminate the economic, social, political, and cultural dimensions of this commerce. Indeed, trade supported Brazil's rise as the world's leading producer of sugar and the first great plantation colony. Likewise, the sugar trade boosted the economy of Portugal and contributed to the upsurge of the Dutch market. The increasing availability of sugar transformed the European diet (along with some medical theories); and sweets came to play an important part in a variety of social practices. In the political arena, sugar and sugar-producing areas became strategic targets in global conflicts. Furthermore, as this trade expanded, it figured centrally in the evolution of a wide range of financial techniques, business strategies, and institutions of governance--which merchants exploited in order to make their transactions more efficient. The book provides a clear examination of these increasingly sophisticated practices, and shows how they had much in common with today's business operations.

Book Sino Portuguese Trade from 1514 to 1644

Download or read book Sino Portuguese Trade from 1514 to 1644 written by Tianze Zhang and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Early English Tobacco Trade

Download or read book The Early English Tobacco Trade written by Charles Malcolm MacInnes and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Anglo Portuguese Alliance and the English Merchants in Portugal 1654   1810

Download or read book The Anglo Portuguese Alliance and the English Merchants in Portugal 1654 1810 written by L.M.E. Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alliance made between Cromwell and John IV in 1654, cemented by the Articles of Marriage between Charles II and Catherine of Braganza in 1661 lasted for 156 years. Together, they provided a guarantee of Portugal’s independence and formed a framework for an expansion of trade between England, Portugal and its overseas possessions. The Inquisition had ruined the ’New Christians’ (Sephardic Jews) who had been Portugal’s principal middlemen, enabling the English merchants to play a dominant role in that expansion once they had overcome their French and Dutch rivals. They held that position until Pombal succeeded by 1770 in breaking the hold which foreigners had established over Portuguese commerce. This book is the result of many years of research into Portuguese and British archival sources. It interweaves politics, economics, religion and commerce to portray what life was like for English merchants in Portugal in the period.

Book Begin  Whereas the Portugal Trade is Very Advantageous to this Nation  Etc   A Discourse on Its Advantages  with a View to the Reduction of Customs Duties

Download or read book Begin Whereas the Portugal Trade is Very Advantageous to this Nation Etc A Discourse on Its Advantages with a View to the Reduction of Customs Duties written by and published by . This book was released on 1695* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Legal Aspects of Trade in Portugal

Download or read book Legal Aspects of Trade in Portugal written by William Stanley Hollis and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portugal in porcelain from China

Download or read book Portugal in porcelain from China written by A. Varela Santos and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Portugal in porcelain from China. 500 years of trade" is a five-volume comprehensive study of Chinese export porcelain made specifically for the Portuguese market from 1520 to 1900. This bi-lingual work, written in Portuguese and English, reports the history of Portugal's trade with China, with primary research on the people and institutions that ordered the porcelains. Volume 3, with 155 illustrations, focuses on orders by the Portuguese aristocracy from the late 17th century until the mid-18th century, presenting also a summary of all the published information in the 20th century. Each of the studied pieces is fully illustrated and accompanied by analyses of the armorials and Western design, placed within the context of the Chinese repertoire of shapes and designs, and annotated with the latest scholarship available by A. Varela Santos, Lourenço Correia de Matos and Margaret K. Gristina.