The Hispanic Monarchy became, over the course of the sixteenth century, the first global empire in history. American silver and the Carrera de Indias undoubtedly played a key role in the workings of the Spanish empire. However, within the empire and at its limits or peripheries, there were other forms of trade where, along with the silver, other valuable products were exchanged. Far from the exclusivity established by the metropolis in the relations with its respective colonies, what actually existed was a global trading network within which money, precious metals, merchandise and flows of information circulated, legally at times and tolerated on other occasions and, always, with the mechanisms established to enforce the law proving insufficient to put an end to the transactions conducted outside the law. This was what happened in the case of trans- Pacific trade and in the exchanges with Peru and Mexico, but also in the transactions that took place between the British colonies and plantations in North America and the Caribbean and the Spanish colonies in Central and South America, the Iberian Peninsula itself and the Canary Islands. A similar situation occurred in the exchanges between Spain and the Muslim powers in North Africa, the enemies of the faith, exchanges that were prohibited, but which without a doubt continued to exist throughout the entire Modern Age. The set of studies compiled in this volume constitute, therefore, an important contribution to the study of the Spanish commercial system understood as a global trading network from 1580 to 1820.
"The pegs and nails in a great building": the sephardim in Jamaica's illicit trade, 1655-1730
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Maritime empire and portuary system: the implementation of the Offices of the Harbour-Master in Hispanic America (1787-1820),
págs. 131-154
págs. 155-173
Malaga and the Maghreb: peripheral but indispensable mercantile trade (1767-1808)
págs. 175-195
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The alternative circuits of silver: Lima and the inter-colonial trade in the Pacific during the 17th century,
págs. 239-251
Trade between Peru and Asia (1785-1820): an approximation
págs. 253-314
págs. 315-330
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