Their abode was the sea. Their raison d’être commerce, their nationality Portuguese, their consciousness transnational. Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert has written A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea: Portugal’s Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492–1640, a fascinating and page-turning account of the Portuguese trading community, which contained some Catholics but was largely composed of Jewish and New Christian…
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The Devil Is in the Details
Canada’s legalization of marijuana raises a host of policy and health questions