5. People, commodities and identities in the making of the Portuguese Atlantic world. (2)

24 Maio 2016, 14:00 • José Damião Rodrigues

5. People, commodities and identities in the making of the Portuguese Atlantic world.

Madeira and the Azores in Atlantic trading circuits: wheat, sugar and wine (Madeira); wheat, corn, wine and spirits (Azores). The wine from Madeira as an Atlantic commodity. The role of the Italian merchants and bankers in the sugar economy and of the English merchants in the wine trade.

The Companhia Geral do Comércio do Brasil and the restrictions to Portuguese trade with Brazil in the 17^th-18^th centuries.  The Portuguese fleet system.

Gold in the Portuguese Atlantic world.

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HANCOCK, David, Oceans of wine: Madeira and the emergence of American trade and taste, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009;

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