Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World

Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World PDF Author: Xabier Lamikiz
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0861933060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Book Description
Drawing on a broad range of Spanish, Peruvian and British archival sources, Trade and Trust explores merchants' experience of trusting their agents and correspondents and examines how different factors such as distance, the quality and frequency of commercial information, legal frameworks and ethnicity affected their ability to rely on their colleagues. Whilst overseas trade has always been a risky undertaking, this book reveals how merchants sought to minimise losses by forging strong bonds of interpersonal trust amongst a range of employees, partners and clients. --Book Jacket.