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Welche Bedeutung besaßen Herkunft und Religion eines frühneuzeitlichen Kaufmanns für seine Geschäftstätigkeit und wie erfolgte seine Integration in die jeweilige Gesellschaft? Die Autorin untersucht in diesem Buch Kaufleute, die im 17. Jahrhundert Handel zwischen Hamburg und Portugal trieben. Die Studie liefert neue Erkenntnisse zur Geschichte von Migration und interkultureller Begegnung in der frühmodernen Globalisierung.

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What impact did the cultural origins and religious backgrounds of the merchants in the early modern period have on their business activities? How did these people manage to integrate themselves into the foreign societies within which they lived and worked? In this book Jorun Poettering examines the circumstances of the merchants who traded between Hamburg and Portugal in the seventeenth century. Her study offers new insights into the history of migration and intercultural encounter as world became more interconnected.

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Jorun Poettering, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München.

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