Staying Afloat - Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820

Zusatztext "Baskes's work is an excellent primer to the structure of Spanish merchant finance, credit, and behavior.... Staying Afloat offers a truly transatlantic interpretation of what made the late imperial Spanish commercial system tick." Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Baskes is Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is the author of Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Late Colonial Oaxaca, 1750-1821 (Stanford, 2000). Klappentext This book examines the enormous riskiness of transatlantic trade in 18th century Spain and argues that many of the long-condemned commercial practices were vital accommodations to pervasive risk and uncertainty. Zusammenfassung This book examines the enormous riskiness of transatlantic trade in 18th century Spain and argues that many of the long-condemned commercial practices were vital accommodations to pervasive risk and uncertainty.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Baskes
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2013
• EAN: 9780804785426
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8542-6
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Social Science History; Social Science History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy