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Early modern, long-distance trade was fraught with risk and uncertainty, driving merchants to seek means (that is, institutions) to reduce them. In the traditional historiography on Spanish colonial trade, the role of risk is largely ignored. Instead, the guild merchants are depicted as anti-competitive monopolists who manipulated markets and exploited colonial consumers. Jeremy Baskes 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.This book discusses topics from the development and use of maritime insurance in eighteenth- century Spain to the commercial strategies of Spanish merchants; the traditionally misunderstood effects of the 1778 promulgation of "comercio libre," and the financial chaos and bankruptcies that ensued; the economic rationale for the Spanish flotillas; and the impact of war and privateering on commerce and business decisions. By elevating risk to the centre of focus, this multifaceted study makes a number of revisionist contributions to the late colonial economic history of the Spanish empire.

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Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Humanities History Regional & national history

• Celý názov: Staying Afloat
• Autor: Jeremy Baskes
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Pevná
• Počet strán: 408
• EAN: 9780804785426
• ISBN: 0804785422
• ID: 02292566
• Nakladateľ: Stanford University Press
• Hmotnosť: 760 g
• Rozmery: 161 × 236 × 28 mm
• Dátum vydania: 17. July 2013

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