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The book surveys the role of Portuguese and Sephardic merchants in the contraband tobacco trade in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Atlantic world. It offers a historical-geographic perspective linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the “Portuguese Nation,” examining the illicit trade in the context of rivalry between Spain and the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years’ War.
“Little-known materials from the Engel Sluiter collection at the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library allowed Yda Schreuder to shed new light on the early seventeenth-century development and expansion of the tobacco trade from Tierra Firme and Hispaniola. Schreuder, a leading expert on Sephardic trading networks in the early modern Atlantic, presented with Portuguese and Amsterdam’s Sephardic Merchants in the Tobacco Trade in the Early Seventeenth Century a fascinating study on the widespread web of contraband, smuggling, bribery, and fraud in which the trade in the ‘Devil’s Weed’ flourished” —Professor Jeroen DeWulf, Berkeley Research University of California, USA.
List of Figures; Preface; Portuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic Merchants in the Tobacco Trade in the Early Seventeenth Century; The Contraband Tobacco Trade with Spanish America: Tierra Firme and Hispaniol; Portuguese Merchants and the Tobacco Trade with Tierra Firme; Portuguese Merchants and the Tobacco Trade with Hispaniola; Conclusion; Bibliographic Notes; Index