Regina Grafe
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691144849
- eISBN:
- 9781400840533
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691144849.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History
This chapter uses bacalao instead of grain in understanding market integration and its link with the political economy, analyzing the emerging cod trade in more detail and contextualizing the cod ...
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This chapter uses bacalao instead of grain in understanding market integration and its link with the political economy, analyzing the emerging cod trade in more detail and contextualizing the cod market within the frame of the new Atlantic trades. These were transoceanic in origin, and they brought about a new, global economy; but they also transformed in their course the domestic economies and societies of Europe. The rise of these transoceanic goods to staple commodities in European countries has offered historians a unique opportunity to investigate the emergence of the early stages of a “consumer culture” in Europe and the expansion of markets that accompanied it.Less
This chapter uses bacalao instead of grain in understanding market integration and its link with the political economy, analyzing the emerging cod trade in more detail and contextualizing the cod market within the frame of the new Atlantic trades. These were transoceanic in origin, and they brought about a new, global economy; but they also transformed in their course the domestic economies and societies of Europe. The rise of these transoceanic goods to staple commodities in European countries has offered historians a unique opportunity to investigate the emergence of the early stages of a “consumer culture” in Europe and the expansion of markets that accompanied it.
Olaf U. Janzen
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781927869024
- eISBN:
- 9781786944429
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781927869024.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Maritime History
This chapter explores the illicit trade of English cod into Spain by French merchants during the Anglo-Spanish War of Jenkin’s Ear. It charts the reasons for the trade - the struggle of French ...
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This chapter explores the illicit trade of English cod into Spain by French merchants during the Anglo-Spanish War of Jenkin’s Ear. It charts the reasons for the trade - the struggle of French merchants in the fish trade and the opportunity they captialised on with the embargo on Anglo-Spanish trade during the war; the repeated failure of the relative authorities to quash the trade; and trade through Saint-Malo and the role of Malouin merchants - particularly the activities of the enormously ambitious Chenu family. It concludes that French merchants used the illicit English cod trade to both bypass the difficulties of the French fish trade and simultaneously attain a higher financial and social rank for themselves.Less
This chapter explores the illicit trade of English cod into Spain by French merchants during the Anglo-Spanish War of Jenkin’s Ear. It charts the reasons for the trade - the struggle of French merchants in the fish trade and the opportunity they captialised on with the embargo on Anglo-Spanish trade during the war; the repeated failure of the relative authorities to quash the trade; and trade through Saint-Malo and the role of Malouin merchants - particularly the activities of the enormously ambitious Chenu family. It concludes that French merchants used the illicit English cod trade to both bypass the difficulties of the French fish trade and simultaneously attain a higher financial and social rank for themselves.
Luca Codignola
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780986497346
- eISBN:
- 9781786944504
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780986497346.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Maritime History
This chapter explores the late eighteenth century relationship between North America and the states of the Italian Peninsula, in attempt to challenge the notion of a homogenous Atlantic world. It ...
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This chapter explores the late eighteenth century relationship between North America and the states of the Italian Peninsula, in attempt to challenge the notion of a homogenous Atlantic world. It reveals a myriad of complex networks - commercial, political, and familial - that facilitated trade between Tuscany, Genoa, Naples, British North America, and the United States. It examines these networks primarily through the cod trade, but also considers wheat, tobacco, sugar, and others. It follows case studies of prominent traders, including Filippo Mazzei; Anton Francesco Salucci; Nicola Filicchi; and Stefano Ceronio, and concludes that, despite popular scholarly opinion garnered from factors such as the failure of diplomacy between the nations, trade between the United States and Italy before 1815 was consistently strong and bolstered through business and familial networks.Less
This chapter explores the late eighteenth century relationship between North America and the states of the Italian Peninsula, in attempt to challenge the notion of a homogenous Atlantic world. It reveals a myriad of complex networks - commercial, political, and familial - that facilitated trade between Tuscany, Genoa, Naples, British North America, and the United States. It examines these networks primarily through the cod trade, but also considers wheat, tobacco, sugar, and others. It follows case studies of prominent traders, including Filippo Mazzei; Anton Francesco Salucci; Nicola Filicchi; and Stefano Ceronio, and concludes that, despite popular scholarly opinion garnered from factors such as the failure of diplomacy between the nations, trade between the United States and Italy before 1815 was consistently strong and bolstered through business and familial networks.
