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Vient de paraître Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700 de Alejandro García-Montón chez Routledge

Le 10 août 2022 à 15h36

Vient de paraître Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700 de Alejandro García-Montón chez Routledge, coll. "Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts", 2022, 310 p. ISBN : 9781032150345 Prix : 120 £ (existe également en version électronique).

"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."



Alejandro García-Montón is a Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación fellow at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain.