Genoese Trade and Migration in the Spanish Atlantic, 1700–1830

Genoese Trade and Migration in the Spanish Atlantic, 1700–1830
Author: Catia Brilli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316571734

The Republic of Genoa was once a major commercial power. Following the Republic's decline in the seventeenth century, Genoese merchants adapted and thrived in the changing Atlantic market. Scholars have examined how other foreign merchant groups operated within the Spanish empire, but until now no one has examined how the Genoese adapted to the challenges of increasing competition in Atlantic trade. Here, Catia Brilli explores how Genoese intermediaries maintained a strong presence in Spanish colonial trade by establishing themselves at the port of Cadiz with its monopoly over American trade, and through gradually consolidating strong commercial ties with the Río de la Plata. Situated at the intersection of European, Atlantic, and Latin American history and making extensive use of Spanish, Italian, and Argentinian sources, Genoese Trade and Migration in the Spanish Atlantic, 1700–1830 provides a unique perspective on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century transatlantic trade.

Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700

Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700
Author: Alejandro García-Montón
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2021-11-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000513637

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

Free Trade and Free Ports in the Mediterranean

Free Trade and Free Ports in the Mediterranean
Author: Giulia Delogu
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2024-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040093493

How did free trade emerge in early-modern times? How did the Mediterranean as a specific region – with its own historical characteristics – produce a culture in which the free port appeared? What was the relation between the type of free trade created in early-modern Italy and the development of global trade and commercial competition between states for hegemony in the eighteenth century? And how did the position of the free port, originally a Mediterranean ‘invention’, develop over the course of time? The contributions to this volume address these questions and explain the institutional genealogy of the free port. Free Trade and Free Ports in the Mediterranean analyses the atypical history and conditions of the Mediterranean region in contradistinction with other regions as an explanation for how and why free ports arose there. This volume engages with the diffusion of free ports from a Mediterranean to a global phenomenon, whilst staying focused on how this diffusion was experienced in the Mediterranean itself. The contributions to this volume bring together the traditional issues of religious openness and tolerance in physically separated areas and the role of consuls and governors, via fiscal techniques, architectural and administrative aspects, with questions about geopolitical balance and primacy. The book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of historical sub-disciplines (early modern, Mediterranean, global economic, political, and institutional, just to mention a few) and to students wishing to perfect their knowledge of the Mediterranean and its global interconnections, and of the origins of free trade.

Sailing Shipping and Maritime Labor in Camogli (1815—1914)

Sailing Shipping and Maritime Labor in Camogli (1815—1914)
Author: Leonardo Scavino
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2022-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004514082

This book explores the historical evolution of a Mediterranean village that radically changed its core self-sustaining activities in less than a century, from fishing for anchovies in the Ligurian Sea to rounding Cape Horn.

Conflict Management in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1000-1800

Conflict Management in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1000-1800
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2020-09-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004407995

Conflict Management in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1000-1800 offers a comparative long-term perspective on the complexity of various approaches to conflict management by those involved in long-distance trade across political and jurisdictional boundaries.

The Great Plague Scare of 1720

The Great Plague Scare of 1720
Author: Cindy Ermus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2022-12-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 110880926X

From 1720 to 1722, the French region of Provence and surrounding areas experienced one of the last major epidemics of plague to strike Western Europe. The Plague of Provence was a major disaster that left in its wake as many as 126,000 deaths, as well as new understandings about the nature of contagion and the best ways to manage its threat. In this transnational study, Cindy Ermus focuses on the social, commercial, and diplomatic impact of the epidemic beyond French borders, examining reactions to this public health crisis from Italy to Great Britain to Spain and the overseas colonies. She reveals how a crisis in one part of the globe can transcend geographic boundaries and influence society, politics, and public health policy in regions far from the epicentre of disaster.

Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
Author: Robert S. DuPlessis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2019-09-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108417655

Revised, updated and expanded, this second edition analyzes the structures and practices of European economies within a global context.

Italy and the Islamic World

Italy and the Islamic World
Author: Ali Humayun Akhtar
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2024-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1399519646

Italy and the Islamic World tells the story of how Italian cities have been centres of international exchange for centuries, linking Europe with the most storied marketplaces of the Middle East and North Africa. From the Ancient Roman period and the Renaissance to the rise of the Italian Republic, Italy has been a global crossroads for more than two millennia. In Ali Humayun Akhtar's new picture of European history, Italy's debates about trade with its southern neighbours evoke an earlier era of encounters - one that sheds light on where the EU is heading today.

Oxford Handbook of Commodities History

Oxford Handbook of Commodities History
Author: Stubbs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2023
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0197502679

"Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodities history follows these goods as they make their way from land and water through processing and trade to eventual consumption. It is a fast-developing field with collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary research, with new information technologies becoming increasingly important. Although many individual researchers continue to focus on particular commodities and regions, they often do so in partnership with others working on different areas and employing a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, placing commodities history at the forefront of local and global historical analysis. This Oxford Handbook features contributions from scholars involved in these developments across a range of countries and linguistic regions. They discuss the state of the art in their fields, draw on their own work, and signal lacunae for future research. Each of its 31 chapters focuses on an important thematic area within commodities history: key approaches, global histories, modes of production, people and land, environmental impact, consumption, and new methodologies. Taken together, the Oxford Handbook of Commodities History offers insight into the directions in which commodities history is heading, and the multiple ways in which it can contribute to a better understanding of the world"--