Migrating Merchants —— Trade, Nation, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Hamburg and Portugal

----- 贸易，国家和宗教：17世纪汉堡与葡萄牙之间的商人

ISBN: 9783110469936 出版年：2019 页码：398 Poettering, Jorun De Gruyter Oldenbourg

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.