Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580-1640
Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Burgundy boards with cream lettering. xvii. 356 pp. No illus. VG/G Dj has tears to front top near spine. Ffep has some white paint or ink droplets. Contents are clean and tight. Item #165433
ISBN: 9780801844058
"While Spanish traders of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were mining the riches of the New World, the Portuguese continued to reap the lucrative Asian trade in spices and luxury items. Historians have long considered the Portuguese trade the exclusive enterprise of the kings of Portugal and a few privileged aristocrats...But, in fact, argues Boyajian, actual capital investments by private Portuguese merchanst were roughly ten times those of the Portuguese crown." -- dj.
OCLC: 185837685
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