Genoese entrepreneurship and the asiento slave trade, 1650-1700 / Alejandro García-Montón.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García-Montón, Alejandro, 1984- author.

Contributor:

Henry Putney Beers Fund.

Series:

Early modern Iberian history in global contexts : connexions.

Early modern Iberian history in global contexts : connexions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--History--17th century.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Italy--Genoa--History--17th century.

Slave traders--Italy--Genoa--History--17th century.

Slave traders.

Merchants--Italy--Genoa--History--17th century.

Merchants.

Slave trade--Spain--America--Colonies--History.

History.

Spain.

America.

Colonies.

Commerce.

Grillo, Domingo, active 1663-1674.

Grillo, Domingo.

Genoa (Italy)--Commerce--History--17th century.

Genoa (Italy).

Genoa (Italy)--History, Naval--17th century.

Italy--Genoa.

Genre:

History.

Naval history.

Physical Description:

xvi, 294 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

From Mediterranean galleys to the transatlantic slave trade : the tale of the Grillo family

Resiliency and adaptation : Genoese entrepreneurs during the 17th century

A new business model for the Atlantic world : monopolistic asientos and the slave trade to Spanish America

The backbone of the asiento : factors, ships' captains and judges

Penetrating the Dutch and the English Atlantic : slaves, merchandise and trans-imperial entanglements

Implementing the asiento and smuggling : a perspective from the Isthmus of Panama and Pacific South America

Genoa : a Mediterranean hub for overseas entrepreneurs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Putney Beers Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: García-Montón, Alejandro, 1984- Genoese entrepreneurship and the asiento slave trade, 1650-1700

ISBN:

9781032150345

1032150343

9781032150369

103215036X

OCLC:

1258780146

Publisher Number:

99989249452