Migrating Merchants : : Trade, Nation, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Hamburg and Portugal / / Jorun Poettering.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Poettering, Jorun,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 389 p.)

Welche Bedeutung besaßen Herkunft und Religion eines frühneuzeitlichen Kaufmanns für seine Geschäftstätigkeit und wie erfolgte seine Integration in die jeweilige Gesellschaft? Die Autorin untersucht in diesem Buch Kaufleute, die im 17. Jahrhundert Handel zwischen Hamburg und Portugal trieben. Die Studie liefert neue Erkenntnisse zur Geschichte von Migration und interkultureller Begegnung in der frühmodernen Globalisierung.

What impact did the cultural origins and religious backgrounds of the merchants in the early modern period have on their business activities? How did these people manage to integrate themselves into the foreign societies within which they lived and worked? In this book Jorun Poettering examines the circumstances of the merchants who traded between Hamburg and Portugal in the seventeenth century. Her study offers new insights into the history of migration and intercultural encounter as world became more interconnected.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Part I: The Political and Legal Context -- 1. Economic and Political Trends -- 2. Alien Merchandise, Alien Merchants -- 3. Legal Provisions and the Formation of Nations -- 4. Consulates and Residencies -- 5. The Inquisition and the State -- Part II: Migration, Life, and Trade -- 6. Diaspora, Migration, and Mobility -- 7. Social Origins and Social Advancement -- 8. Turnovers and Assets -- 9. Grain, Sugar, Wax, and Tobacco -- 10. The Cross-Border Infrastructure -- Part III: Solidarity and Identity -- 11. Trust, Reputation, and Religion -- 12. Trading Networks, Family, and Nation -- 13. Merchant Organizations -- 14. The Portuguese Nation -- 15. Netherlanders and Hamburgers -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index