Description: Further DetailsTitle: Staying AfloatCondition: NewSubtitle: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820ISBN-10: 0804785422EAN: 9780804785426ISBN: 9780804785426Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/17/2013Description: Early modern, long-distance trade was fraught with risk and uncertainty, driving merchants to seek means (that is, institutions) to reduce them. In the traditional historiography on Spanish colonial trade, the role of risk is largely ignored. Instead, the guild merchants are depicted as anti-competitive monopolists who manipulated markets and exploited colonial consumers. Jeremy Baskes argues that much of the commercial behavior interpreted by modern historians as predatory was instead designed to reduce the uncertainty and risk of Atlantic world trade. This book discusses topics from the development and use of maritime insurance in eighteenth- century Spain to the commercial strategies of Spanish merchants; the traditionally misunderstood effects of the 1778 promulgation of "comercio libre," and the financial chaos and bankruptcies that ensued; the economic rationale for the Spanish flotillas; and the impact of war and privateering on commerce and business decisions. By elevating risk to the center of focus, this multifaceted study makes a number of revisionist contributions to the late colonial economic history of the Spanish empire.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 662gAuthor: Jeremy BaskesGenre: Business & FinanceBook Series: Social Science HistoryTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Staying Afloat
Title: Staying Afloat
Subtitle: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820
ISBN-10: 0804785422
EAN: 9780804785426
ISBN: 9780804785426
Release Date: 07/17/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Business & Finance
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 408 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Staying Afloat : Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Europe / Spain & Portugal, Commerce, Ships & Shipbuilding / General, Insurance / General, Latin America / South America
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 23.4 Oz
Subject Area: Transportation, Business & Economics, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Jeremy Baskes
Item Width: 7.6 in
Series: Social Science History Ser.
Format: Hardcover
