Staying afloat :: risk and uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic world trade, 1760-1820 /

Early modern, long-distance trade was fraught with risk and uncertainty, driving merchants to seek means to reduce them. In the traditional historiography on Spanish colonial trade, the role of risk is largely ignored. Instead, the guild (consulado) merchants are depicted as anti-competitive monopol...

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1. Verfasser: Baskes, Jeremy, 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
Schriftenreihe:Social science history.
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Zusammenfassung:Early modern, long-distance trade was fraught with risk and uncertainty, driving merchants to seek means to reduce them. In the traditional historiography on Spanish colonial trade, the role of risk is largely ignored. Instead, the guild (consulado) merchants are depicted as anti-competitive monopolists who manipulated markets and exploited colonial consumers. This book argues that much of the commercial behaviour interpreted by modern historians as predatory was instead designed to reduce the uncertainty and risk of Atlantic world trade
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 393 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9780804786355
0804786356

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