Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700
Alejandro García-Montón, "Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700 "
English | ISBN: 1032150343 | 2021 | 310 pages | EPUB | 589 KB
English | ISBN: 1032150343 | 2021 | 310 pages | EPUB | 589 KB
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
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