Merchants and Trade Networks in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1550-1800

This collective volume explores the ways merchants managed to connect different spaces all over the globe in the early modern period by organizing the movement of goods, capital, information and cultural objects between different commercial maritime systems in the Mediterranean and Atlantic basin. It consists of four thematic blocs: theoretical

Autorentext

Manuel Herrero Sánchez is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain.

Klemens Kaps is a post-doc-Researcher at the Institute for Economic and Social History of Vienna University, Austria.

Inhalt

1. Manuel Herrero Sánchez / Klemens Kaps: Connectors, Networks and Commercial Systems: Approaches to the study of early modern maritime trade history

Part I: Merchant networks, early modern long-distance trade and globalization: Theoretical considerations and historiographical reappraisal

2. Xabier Lamikiz: Networks, Social Capital and Trust in Early Modern Long-Distance Trade: A Critical Appraisal

3. Montserrat Cachero Vinuesa: Understanding Networking: Theoretical Framework and Evidence from History

4. Ana Crespo Solana: The merchants and the beating of a butterfly's wings: from local to global in the transfer of economic behavior models in the 18th century

Part II: The social composition of networks: Cultural Identities versus Transnationality

5. Eberhard Crailsheim: French and Flemish merchants in Seville as connectors of European and American markets (1570-1650)

6. José Luis Gasch Tomás: Cochineal, silver and porcelain from New Spain to Iberia. The commercial network of Santi Federighi (1600-1643)

7. Manuel F. Fernández Chaves & Mercedes Gamero Rojas: Nations? What nations? Bussiness in the shaping of international trade networks in XVIIIth century Seville

Part III: Connecting Spaces: Networks and Systems, Merchants and Political Economies

8. Margrit Schulte Beerbühl: Interconnecting trade regions: International networks of German merchants in the eighteenth century

9. Pablo Hernández Sau: Bouligny's family network: Between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean (1700-1780)

Part IV: The complexity of networks: Formal and Informal Exchange mechanisms and rupture of merchant cooperation

10. Bethany Aram: Hides and the Hispanic Monarchy: From C