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University of North Carolina Wilmington - SPRING 2011 | ||
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A Nation upon the Ocean Sea: Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 (1st Edition) by Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-10: 0-19-517569-7 / 0195175697 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517569-1 / 9780195175691 With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean Sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews, Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. |