Migrating merchants: trade, nation, and religion in seventeenth-century Hamburg and Portugal

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...

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Auteur principal: Poettering, Jorun (Auteur)
Collaborateurs: Kronenberg, Kenneth 1946- (Traducteur)
Type de support: Électronique Livre
Langue:Anglais
Service de livraison Subito: Commander maintenant.
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Publié: Berlin Boston De Gruyter Oldenbourg [2019]
Dans:Année: 2019
Sujets non-standardisés:B 17th Century
B Merchants
B Hamburg
B Portugal
Accès en ligne: Couverture
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Édition parallèle:Erscheint auch als: 9783110469936
Erscheint auch als: 9783110470017
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Résumé: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.
ISBN:3110472104
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/9783110472103