eSefarad Noticias del Mundo Sefaradi
The book surveys the role of Portuguese and Portuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic merchants in the tobacco trade.
by Yda Schreuder | 11 March 2025
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Sephardic merchants in the contraband tobacco trade in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Atlantic world.
It offers a historical-geographic perspective linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the «Portuguese Nation,» examining the illicit trade in the context of rivalry between Spain and the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years’ War.
