A Hydra of Business and Men: The Habsburg <i>Asiento de Negros</i> in Structuring the European Transatlantic Slave Trade: Library of Economic History, cartea 21
Autor Cátia A.P. Antunes, Alejandro García-Monton, Elisabeth Heijmans, Gerhard de Kok, Susana Münch Miranda, Edgar Pereira, João Paulo Salvado, Julie Svalastogen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 dec 2025
This book is unique in providing the first comprehensive study of the asiento since George Scelle’s 1906 work (La traite négrière aux Indes de Castille. Contracts et traités d’assiento, 2 vols.). Unlike Scelle, who focused on legal frameworks and presented the monarchy’s perspective, this book examines the asientistas themselves, offering insights into their business decisions and organizations. It concentrates on the period that gave rise to the idea of an asiento and the Habsburg-era asientos (1595–1713), preceding the so-called Bourbon reforms.
Preț: 562.39 lei
Preț vechi: 661.64 lei
-15% Nou
Puncte Express: 844
Preț estimativ în valută:
99.55€ • 115.91$ • 86.94£
99.55€ • 115.91$ • 86.94£
Carte disponibilă
Livrare economică 01-07 ianuarie 26
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004745087
ISBN-10: 9004745084
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Library of Economic History
ISBN-10: 9004745084
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Library of Economic History
Notă biografică
Cátia Antunes is Professor of Global Economic Networks: Merchants, Entrepreneurs and Empires at the Institute for History at Leiden University. She is currently the principal investigator of the project Exploiting the Empire of Others supported by the Dutch Research Council.
Alejandro García-Montón is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economic Theory and Economic History of the Universidad de Granada. He specialises in the histories of pre-industrial capitalism with a focus on Mediterranean entrepreneurship, the political economy of Atlantic empires, and the articulation of trans-imperial slave trade in the Caribbean. He is the author of Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700 (2022).
Elisabeth Heijmans, Ph.D. (2018), Leiden University, is an economic and social historian specialised in French and Dutch early modern overseas expansions. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. She is the author of The Agency of Empire: Connections and Strategies in French Overseas Expansion (1686–1746) (2020).
Gerhard de Kok works as a digital historian at the Huygens Institute of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he applies techniques from the field of AI to the study of history. In addition, he works on several Linked Open Data projects.
Susana Münch Miranda is Assistant Professor at the NOVA University of Lisbon, School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), and a researcher at CSG/GHES, Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG). Her research focuses on early modern public finance, fiscal institutions, and transnational business networks.
Edgar Pereira is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the History of Society and Culture – Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (Portugal). His area of expertise is the interest aggregation between the early modern Iberian Crowns and business groups, with a particular focus on army and naval logistics, as well as overseas trade and taxation.
João Paulo Salvado is a research fellow at CIDEHUS, University of Évora. His research interests lie at the intersection between economic history, social history, and the history of institutions in the early modern period. He has published on various topics, including the formation of business groups in the context of expanding foreign and colonial trade in 18th-century Lisbon and their embeddedness in transnational networks connecting Lisbon with European and colonial port cities.
Julie Svalastog, Ph.D. (2017), Leiden University, is an independent scholar and author of Mastering the Worst of Trades: England’s Early Africa Companies and Their Traders, 1618–1672 (2021).
Alejandro García-Montón is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economic Theory and Economic History of the Universidad de Granada. He specialises in the histories of pre-industrial capitalism with a focus on Mediterranean entrepreneurship, the political economy of Atlantic empires, and the articulation of trans-imperial slave trade in the Caribbean. He is the author of Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700 (2022).
Elisabeth Heijmans, Ph.D. (2018), Leiden University, is an economic and social historian specialised in French and Dutch early modern overseas expansions. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. She is the author of The Agency of Empire: Connections and Strategies in French Overseas Expansion (1686–1746) (2020).
Gerhard de Kok works as a digital historian at the Huygens Institute of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he applies techniques from the field of AI to the study of history. In addition, he works on several Linked Open Data projects.
Susana Münch Miranda is Assistant Professor at the NOVA University of Lisbon, School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), and a researcher at CSG/GHES, Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG). Her research focuses on early modern public finance, fiscal institutions, and transnational business networks.
Edgar Pereira is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the History of Society and Culture – Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (Portugal). His area of expertise is the interest aggregation between the early modern Iberian Crowns and business groups, with a particular focus on army and naval logistics, as well as overseas trade and taxation.
João Paulo Salvado is a research fellow at CIDEHUS, University of Évora. His research interests lie at the intersection between economic history, social history, and the history of institutions in the early modern period. He has published on various topics, including the formation of business groups in the context of expanding foreign and colonial trade in 18th-century Lisbon and their embeddedness in transnational networks connecting Lisbon with European and colonial port cities.
Julie Svalastog, Ph.D. (2017), Leiden University, is an independent scholar and author of Mastering the Worst of Trades: England’s Early Africa Companies and Their Traders, 1618–1672 (2021).
Cuprins
Contents
List of Tables
Introduction
1 Direct Management of the ‘Portuguese’ Asientos
1 The Lead up to the ‘Portuguese’ Asientos
2 Asientos de Negros: The Standard Contractual Provisions
3 The Organisation and Implementation of the Asientos
4 Costs and Benefits of the Asientos
5 Conclusion
2 Indirect Management of the Asiento
1 Changing the Rules of the Game: The 1662 Asiento
2 Re-orchestrating the Trade
2.1 Organising the Asiento from Europe
2.2 The Trade from Africa
2.3 The American Networks and the Colonial Markets
3 Conclusion
3 Outsourcing: A Chartered Privileged Approach to the Asiento
1 A Smoking Screen: Sir Martin Noell and the Negotiations with the Asiento
2 Martin Noell and Alexander Bence in Amsterdam
3 The Terms of the First Contract and the Deployment of the Asiento
4 Contracting the Company of Royal Adventurers into Africa
5 Competing for Enslaved Labour: A View from the English Caribbean
6 Conclusion
4 Outsourcing: A Joint-Stock Approach to the Asiento
1 The WIC: A Joint Stock Company
2 The WIC: The Provisions of the Asiento and Curaçao
3 Outsourcing the Slave Trade to a Joint-Stock Company
4 The wic and the Asiento
5 Amsterdam Merchant Networks and the Asiento
6 Routes and Procedures
7 Illicit Trade and the Asiento
8 Conclusion
5 Deaths and Debts: The Zenith of Indirect Management?
1 Old Solutions to New Problems
2 New Names to Old Solutions
3 The Shortcoming of Indirect Management
4 The Definite Failure of Indirect Management
6 Credible Asentista: Moving Away from Intermediaries
1 Aligning Interests before the Asiento of 1696
2 Partners and Capital
3 The Asiento under the Companhia Da Guiné
4 The Dissolution of the Portuguese Asiento
7 Royal Shareholders: The End of an Era
1 The Negotiation Process and the Content of the Contract
2 The Late Establishment of the Compagnie De L’asiento
3 Licensing and Contracting
4 Costs and Gains of the Asiento
8 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Tables
Introduction
1 Direct Management of the ‘Portuguese’ Asientos
1 The Lead up to the ‘Portuguese’ Asientos
2 Asientos de Negros: The Standard Contractual Provisions
3 The Organisation and Implementation of the Asientos
4 Costs and Benefits of the Asientos
5 Conclusion
2 Indirect Management of the Asiento
1 Changing the Rules of the Game: The 1662 Asiento
2 Re-orchestrating the Trade
2.1 Organising the Asiento from Europe
2.2 The Trade from Africa
2.3 The American Networks and the Colonial Markets
3 Conclusion
3 Outsourcing: A Chartered Privileged Approach to the Asiento
1 A Smoking Screen: Sir Martin Noell and the Negotiations with the Asiento
2 Martin Noell and Alexander Bence in Amsterdam
3 The Terms of the First Contract and the Deployment of the Asiento
4 Contracting the Company of Royal Adventurers into Africa
5 Competing for Enslaved Labour: A View from the English Caribbean
6 Conclusion
4 Outsourcing: A Joint-Stock Approach to the Asiento
1 The WIC: A Joint Stock Company
2 The WIC: The Provisions of the Asiento and Curaçao
3 Outsourcing the Slave Trade to a Joint-Stock Company
4 The wic and the Asiento
5 Amsterdam Merchant Networks and the Asiento
6 Routes and Procedures
7 Illicit Trade and the Asiento
8 Conclusion
5 Deaths and Debts: The Zenith of Indirect Management?
1 Old Solutions to New Problems
2 New Names to Old Solutions
3 The Shortcoming of Indirect Management
4 The Definite Failure of Indirect Management
6 Credible Asentista: Moving Away from Intermediaries
1 Aligning Interests before the Asiento of 1696
2 Partners and Capital
3 The Asiento under the Companhia Da Guiné
4 The Dissolution of the Portuguese Asiento
7 Royal Shareholders: The End of an Era
1 The Negotiation Process and the Content of the Contract
2 The Late Establishment of the Compagnie De L’asiento
3 Licensing and Contracting
4 Costs and Gains of the Asiento
8 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index