Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700

Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700

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García-Montón, Alejandro
Taylor & Francis Ltd
EAN: 9781032150369
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This book explains how Genoese entrepreneurs transformed the structures of global trade during the second half of the seventeenth century. The author reconstructs the business network built by the Genoese merchant Domenico Grillo between the 1650s and the 1680s. Grillo’s business interests stretched from the Mediterranean to Pacific South America, traversing and joining the Spanish, Dutch, and English Atlantics. He and his associates created a new business model that was to be emulated by Dutch, French, and English traders in subsequent decades: the monopolistic asientos for the exploitation of the trans-imperial and intra-American slave trade to Spanish America. Offering a connected history of capitalism across trans-continental geographies and different empires, this book challenges established views of a period which has traditionally been interrogated from a northern European mercantile perspective. Cutting across the histories of the slave trade in the Atlantic world, early modern capitalism, and early modern empire, this study has much to offer to students and scholars interested in the agents, economic practices, and geographies of trade that do not easily fit into and therefore disrupt the traditional narratives of the Rise of the West.

Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com

EAN 9781032150369
ISBN 103215036X
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication date May 31, 2023
Pages 294
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 152
Country United Kingdom
Readership Tertiary Education
Authors Garcia-Monton, Alejandro
Illustrations 1 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Series Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts
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