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- Title
EL COMERCIO DE NUEVA ESPAÑA CON CASTILLA EN LA ÉPOCA DE FELIPE II: REDES COMERCIALES Y SEGUROS MARÍTIMOS.
- Authors
Casado Alonso, Hilario
- Abstract
This paper studies the trading networks established between New Spain and Castile during the age of Philip II. Our starting point is a documentary database of more than 200 maritime insurance policies related to this trade, kept in the Burgos Consulate Archive, and covering the period between 1565 and 1586. Historians have never used these documents to study the Carrera de Indias [the colonial convoy system], even though Burgos was at the time the insurance center for the Spanish and Portuguese trade in America. By analyzing the maritime insurance policies we can learn not only about the number of ships departing from Europe and Africa towards New Spain, but also about their merchandises and the incidents during the journeys. Moreover, since the documents have the names of the consignees living in Mexico, as well as of the merchants who insured their merchandises in Spain and Portugal, we can reconstruct some of the features of the trading and social networks established between both parts of the Spanish Empire during those years.
- Subjects
BURGOS (Spain); SPAIN; MEXICO; AMERICA; MARINE insurance policies; SPANISH colonial commerce; SPANISH colony, Mexico, 1540-1810; REIGN of Philip II, Spain, 1556-1598; INTERNATIONAL trade; NEW Spain; SIXTEENTH century; COMMERCE; HISTORY; HISTORICAL source material
- Publication
Historia Mexicana, 2012, Vol 61, Issue 3, p935
- ISSN
0185-0172
- Publication type
Article