Suez and Silk: How an Account of a 1554 Naval Battle Illuminates the Iberian Maritime Economic System

Three handwritten letters from 1554 reveal the early-modern Spanish Empire’s maritime economic system. Iberians and Ottomans defended commercial interests in naval battles for Aden, Masqat, Hormuz, and Goa. These letters provide incidental information for a social history of seafaring: tribes’ names...

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Main Author: Memarzadeh, Maher (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2013
In: Oriens
Year: 2013, Volume: 41, Issue: 1/02, Pages: 121-157
Further subjects:B Merchants
B Armenians
B Indian Ocean
B Social History
B Red Sea
B Colonial Mexico
B Jews
B Silk trade
B Iberian kingdoms
B maritime history
B Janissaries
B Makran Coast
B mercantile capitalism
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