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Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World - Spanish Merchants and their Overseas Networks (Paperback)
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Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World - Spanish Merchants and their Overseas Networks (Paperback)
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
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Shows how merchants sought to minimise losses by forging strong
bonds of interpersonal trust amongst a range of employees,
partners, and clients. Fruitfully combining approaches from
economic history and the cultural history of commerce, this book
examines the role of interpersonal trust in underpinning trade,
amid the challenges and uncertainties of the
eighteenth-centuryAtlantic. It focuses on the nature of mercantile
activity in two parts of Spain: Cadiz in the south, and its trade
with Spain's American empire; and Bilbao in the north, and its
trade with western and northern Europe. In particular, it explores
the processes of trade, trading networks and communications,
seeking to understand merchant behaviour, especially the choices
made by individuals when conducting business - and specifically
with whom they chose to deal. Drawing from a broad range of
Spanish, Peruvian and British archival sources, the book reveals
merchants' experiences of trusting their agents and correspondents,
and shows how different factors, from distance to legalframeworks
and ethnicity, affected their ability to rely on their contacts.
Xabier Lamikiz is Associate Professor of Economic History at the
University of the Basque Country. .
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