THE PORTUGUESE, THATTA AND THE EXTERNAL TRADE OF SIND, 1515-1635

The Urgent Empire Portugal Between 1475 and 1525

2006

After a survey of the natural resources in the different areas of the Portuguese territory, the effects of the overseas expansion on these sectors were studied. An excessive demand was noted, given the scale of the available resources, together with the general incapacity to rapidly replace them. The serious involvement of all social classes in the realm's principal political projects was demonstrated, as well as the existence of leaderships and the financial and technical resources necessary for ensuring Portuguese primacy in European expansion. Urgency justified the overexploitation of resources and the heavy tax burden, but it also compromised the country's future, with its small metropolitan space proving incapable of sustaining a lengthy revitalization effort, hence the title of this paper.

Imperial Perceptions and Circulation in the Portuguese Atlantic World (1620s–1660s)

Itinerario (Cambridge University Press) , 2017

Among themore emphasised aspects of theAtlantic history are themobility of ideas and goods but also the endless movement of peoples that linked the margins of the ocean and gave theAtlantic basin an indisputable cohesion.Within the theoretical framework of the subfield of Atlantic history, this study addresses the way the imperial perceptions shaped the migratory patterns of the Portuguese Atlantic, notably the transoceanic behaviour of themen who volunteered to defend its scattered territories.During a particularly difficult period in the mid-seventeenth century, the hierarchical ambiguities of Portuguese empire and its religiously charged military thought, in conjunction with the prevalent political culture of service, promoted a constant back and forth across the ocean that revealed the conceptual unity of the Portuguese Atlantic world. For these men, for a while, there were no alluring centres and unappealing peripheries; the Atlantic was conceived of as a wide circulation space essentially free from mental or emotional prejudices.

Joana Sequeira, Flávio Miranda 'A Port of Two Seas.' Lisbon and European Maritime Networks in the Fifteenth Century

Maritime Networks as a Factor in European Integration, 2019

With the development of research in economic history, historians are now testing the hypothesis that maritime networks and port cities contributed to the phenomenon of European integration. This essay applies a holistic approach to discuss how the city of Lisbon, located outside the privileged setting of multi-cultural interactions that was the Mediterranean Sea, became appealing to merchants from far and wide in late-medieval Europe. To do so, it examines a whole array of commercial, normative, fiscal, royal and judicial sources from European archives to discuss if it is possible to observe this phenomenon of European integration in fifteenth-century Lisbon.

IBERIAN RESOURCES NAVAL SHIPBUILDING (1580-1640). in A Gestão dos Recursos Florestais Portugueses na Construção Naval da Idade Moderna: História e Arqueologia (ForSEADiscovery Project)

Portuguese naval historians have been conducting their naval studies looking mainly to our maritime activity for the sixteen and seventeen centuries for the Indian mari- time route. Doing that, the Portuguese naval historians are constructing a maritime history that doesn’t cover all our activities, especially the ones conducted in both the South and North Atlantic. This situation is even more aggravated when we are talking about the 60 years that Portugal was under Habsburg role, when the question of what would have happen if those 60 years hadn’t occur. This link goes from the logistic support, to the exchange of military ships, mainly galleons and it went both ways. If in the early 1580s the Portuguese galleons were the main warships of all the Castilian fleets, from late 1590s with the increase number of losses in the Indian route, Castilian galleons were bought in high num- bers to fulfill the Portuguese needs in both the Atlantic and in the Far East. To try to understand and identify the role and link the Portuguese and Spanish naval resources is the main propose of this study.

A Port of two Seas. Lisbon and European Maritime Networks in the 15th century (by Joana Sequeira and Flávio Miranda)

Maritime Networks as a factor in European Integration. Florence, Firenze University Press, 2019

With the development of research in economic history, historians are now testing the hypothesis that maritime networks and port cities contributed to the phenomenon of European integration. This essay applies a holistic approach to discuss how the city of Lisbon, located outside the privileged setting of multi-cultural interactions that was the Mediterranean Sea, became appealing to merchants from far and wide in late-medieval Europe. To do so, it examines a whole array of commercial, normative, fiscal, royal and judicial sources from European archives to discuss if it is possible to observe this phenomenon of European integration in fifteenth-century Lisbon. It first presents and analyses examples of meaningful pull factors, and then it debates elements of integration and opposition in Portugal’s main port city. Although Lisbon grew to become a cosmopolitan city of merchants, the rise of trade also turned into a factor of intense competition, which sometimes pushed traders in the opposite direction of a purported European integration. ‘Un porto di due mari. Lisbona e le reti marittime europee del XV secolo Con lo sviluppo della ricerca relativa alla storia economica, gli storici stanno attualmente verificando l'ipotesi di come le reti marittime e le città portuali abbiano contribuito al fenomeno dell'integrazione europea. Questo saggio applica un approccio olistico per discutere di come nell’Europa tardo medievale la città di Lisbona, posta fuori da quello scenario di interazioni multiculturali rappresentato dal Mar Mediterraneo, divenne interessante anche per i mercanti più distanti. Per fare ciò vengono esaminate una serie di fonti fiscali, commerciali, normative, reali e giudiziarie provenienti da alcuni archivi europei per discutere se sia possibile considerare questo fenomeno di integrazione europea nella Lisbona del XV secolo. In primo luogo si presentano e analizzano esempi significativi di fattori di aattrazione, quindi si discute relativamente agli elementi di integrazione e resistenza nella principale città portuale del Portogallo. Sebbene Lisbona stesse diventando una città cosmopolita di mercanti, l'ascesa del commercio si trasformò anche in un fattore di confronto e rivalità, che a volte spingeva i commercianti nella direzione opposta a quella di una presunta integrazione europea.

Portugal in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

e-Journal of Portuguese History, 2010

The historiography written about Portugal has been particularly productive over the last three decades. There has also been no shortage of histories of Portugal attempting to produce syntheses, some more analytical, others less so, and almost all of them published in ...