Foreign businessmen and the financing of trade to the   Indies in the second half of the 18th century.

Catia Brilli; Arnaud Bartolomei; Klemens Kaps

doi:10.18716/ojs/jbla.62.2744

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Catia Brilli University of Insubria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6288-5823
Arnaud Bartolomei Université Côte d'Azur https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6775-0226
Klemens Kaps Johannes Kepler Universität Linz https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0321-3891

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https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/jbla.62.2744

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Comercio colonial español, riesgo marítimo , letra de cambio

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Este artículo examina el papel intermediario de los comerciantes extranjeros (especialmente hombres de negocios franceses, genoveses y milaneses) en la gestión del comercio europeo con las Indias a través del puerto español de Cádiz hacia el final del Antiguo Régimen, centrándose en las formas en que estructuraron su participación y los instrumentos que utilizaron para financiar este comercio. Sostenemos que los comerciantes extranjeros operaban en dos entornos institucionales diferentes según la naturaleza de su negocio: con sus socios europeos, se basaban en los instrumentos clásicos del comercio intraeuropeo (como libros de cuentas, letras de cambio y contratos de comisión); con los cargadores, los comerciantes legalmente habilitados para participar en el comercio transoceánico español, agrupaban capital mercantil y financiero europeo destinado a los mercados americanos recurriendo de manera masiva (aunque no exclusiva) a los préstamos marítimos. El artículo no solo analiza el uso persistente de este instrumento y su rentabilidad, sino también las posibles razones de su declive en las últimas décadas del siglo.

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Catia Brilli, University of Insubria

Catia Brilli is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Insubria since 2021. She was visiting fellow at the European University Institute (2009), faculty fellow at the Center for Historical Research of the Ohio State University (2009-2010), research fellow at the Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, CSIC (2010-2013), teaching fellow at Bocconi University (2015-2022) and research fellow at the University of Milan (2017-2019).

She has participated in numerous research projects funded by national and international organizations and serves as an evaluator for international assessment bodies. Her research interests include the history of global trade and migration in the modern era, the study of independence processes in the Atlantic world, and the investments of the Italian noble elites during the 18th and 19th centuries. Among her publications are Genoese Trade and Migration in the Spanish Atlantic (c. 1700-1830) (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2016), Alle origini del caudillismo in Messico (Milan, Franco Angeli, 2022), and (with Manuel Herrero) Italian Merchants in the Early-Modern Spanish Monarchy (London, Routledge, 2017).
Arnaud Bartolomei, Université Côte d'Azur

Arnaud Bartolomei is professor in the Department of History at Université Côte d’Azur and member of the Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine. His research focuses on commercial dynamics, merchants’ networks and mercantile institutions in European, Atlantic and Mediterranean spaces (1750-1850). His second (habilitation) thesis, defended at the Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (2022) offers a comparative study of the commercial exchanges between Mexico and Europe at the end of the colonial era and in the years following its independence. His publications include the monograph Les marchands français de Cadix et la crise de la Carrera de Indias (1778-1828), Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, 2017 and « The sharing of the profits of Carrera de Indias. The actors of the Hispanic colonial trade and their monopolistic positions in the second half of the 18^th century », The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, on line, 2024.
Klemens Kaps, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz

Klemens Kaps is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economic, Social and Environmental History at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz since 2020. His research focuses on external and domestic trade of the Habsburg Monarchy between the 17th and 19th centuries and its relationship to changes in production and economic policy. Against this background, he explores transnational mercantile networks in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic during the 18th century. In his second (habilitation) thesis, defended at the Johannes Kepler Universität in Linz in 2022, he studied trade flows, commodity chains, mercantile networks and mercantilist political economy between Central Europe and the Spanish Monarchy during the 18th century. His publications include the monograph Ungleiche Entwicklung in Zentraleuropa. Galizien zwischen überregionaler Arbeitsteilung und imperialer Politik (1772-1914) Vienna 2015 and the edited volume (together with Manuel Herrero Sánchez) Merchants and Trade Networks in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1550-1800: Connectors of Commercial Maritime Systems, London 2017.

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