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

by Jeremy Baskes

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804785422
• ISBN13: 9780804785426
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"