Portuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic Merchants in the Tobacco Trade

Portuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic Merchants in the Tobacco TradePortuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic Merchants in the Tobacco Trade is a history of the role of Portuguese and Sephardic merchants in the tobacco industry and trade of Amsterdam. It focuses on the contraband trade with Tierra Firme and Hispaniola in the early seventeenth century as documented in the Engel Sluiter Historical Documents Collection.

paintings and museum exhibitions to show how aspects of Hispanic visual culture ‘manage’ or ‘mediate’ risk

national cinema

Editor of the Encyclopaedia of British Cinema

Copious illustrations and a range of research resources

Scott McKinnon builds the book from a variety of sources

Place and Design examines the human relationship with place

It argues that a sociological approach is needed to address conceptual deficits and explain how the mechanisms of democratic statehood can be updated today

Frank Ryan

offering reflections on architecture

drunks and remorseful murderers populate Trials of the self

and covers 3 different types of internees in Britain: civilians already present in the country in August 1914

much of which formed the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the Hwicce