Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700 (Hardcover)

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

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts
Release date:	November 2021
First published:	2022
Authors:	Alejandro Garcia-Monton
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	294
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-215034-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > History > American history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-03-215034-3
Barcode:	9781032150345

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