New Book: Portuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic merchants in the tobacco trade by Yda Schreuder

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.

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