Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth–Century Atlant – Spanish Merchants and their …

Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic WorldSpanish Merchants and their Overseas Networks\nAuthor(s): Xabier Lamikiz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Royal Historical Society\nISBN-13: 9780861933068, 978-0861933068\nSynopsis\nShows how merchants sought to minimise losses by forging strong bonds of interpersonal trust amongst a range of employees, partners, and clients.\n\nFruitfully combining approaches from economic history and the cultural history of commerce, this book examines the role of interpersonal trust in underpinning trade, amid the challenges and uncertainties of the eighteenth-centuryAtlantic. It focuses on the nature of mercantile activity in two parts of Spain: Cadiz in the south, and its trade with Spain's American empire; and Bilbao in the north, and its trade with western and northern Europe. In particular, it explores the processes of trade, trading networks and communications, seeking to understand mercha.