Jeremy Baskes
Biographic Data
| ID | 713763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Baskes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Baskes |
| SIGNATURE | BASKES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-9347-8049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social science history
Staying Afloat
Communication Breakdown
Spanish merchants engaged in long distance trade during the Early Modern era faced a multitude of risks and uncertainties. Inclement weather, enemy forces, piracy, unpredictable markets, and a pano
Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
In the eighteenth century, long-distance trade involved a multitude of risks and uncertainties. One of the greatest risks stemmed from unavoidable information asymmetries between parties, the inequality of information that each party possessed. Once merchants had shipped their cargoes to distant markets, they became utterly dependent on their network of correspondents and trade associates, any one of whom had the potential to act fraudulently, pe…
Comercio y poder en América colonial
In the past few years, historians — especially from Latin America and Spain — have reexamined the central roles played by the consulado merchant guilds of both the peninsula and Spanish America. This present book, which evolved out of a 2000 conference held in Argentina, complements and builds on a 1999 volume on consulados by Enriqueta Vila Vilar and Allan Kuethe titled Relaciones de poder y comercio colonial (Escuela de Estudios Hispano-America…
Risky Ventures
Historians of colonial Mexico have long condemned Spain's highly regimented system of colonial trade and the merchants who v^ere its primary beneficiaries. Observing what they have perceived to be anti-competitive behavior, historians have concluded that an elite group of merchants, most notably the members of the Mexican and Spanish Consulados, were engaged in the erection of commercial monopolies designed to generate extraordinary profits. This…
Colonial Institutions and Cross-Cultural Trade
Colonial societies exhibit peculiar institutions frequently attributed to the unequal and exploitative nature of the relations between colonizer and colonized. Repartimiento has been depicted as a coercive system of production and consumption designed by Spaniards to draw reluctant Amerindians into the market. An examination of repartimiento through the lens of New Institutional Economics provides an alternative understanding of this credit syste…
Mercados indígenas en México, Chile y Argentina
It was not long ago that historians viewed indigenous villages in colonial Spanish America as isolated communities, insulated from the marketplace except when forced to provide goods or services to their Spanish overlords. Over the past two decades, economic historians have shattered this erroneous image and have constructed a far more complex representation of the colonial economy. The six essays in this volume contribute to this process by incr…
Relaciones de poder y comercio colonial
The nine essays contained in this book were originally presented as conference papers at the 1997 International Congress of Americanists in Quito, Ecuador. Heterogeneous in thematic and geographical focus, the work is useful, but not all that cohesive. The book is divided into two parts. Three chapters in part 1 examine the immensely important role played by the Spanish Consulado of Seville and later Cádiz. Six chapters of part 2 examine a wide v…
Coerced or Voluntary? TheRepartimientoand Market Participation of Peasants in Late Colonial Oaxaca
This article challenges the traditional depiction of the late colonialrepartimiento de comercioas a system of forced production and consumption. Employing a micro-economic analysis of therepartimiento'soperation in Oaxaca, it argues that peasant participation in thealcaldes mayores' repartimientoswas voluntary, not coerced, and that therepartimientoshould be understood instead as a system of consumer and producer credit designed to operate under …
Maya and Spaniard in Yucatán, 1648-1812
A study of the development of human society in Yucatan during the colonial period, this book poses a challenge to a variety of accepted views, including the notion that Yucatan was largely isolated from the main part of Spain's New World empire and thus from international markets and the world economy - an isolation often cited as the principal reason for the extended survival of indigenous culture in the region. In the seventeenth and eighteenth…
Maya and Spaniard in Yucatán, 1648-1812
A study of the development of human society in Yucatan during the colonial period, this book poses a challenge to a variety of accepted views, including the notion that Yucatan was largely isolated from the main part of Spain's New World empire and thus from international markets and the world economy - an isolation often cited as the principal reason for the extended survival of indigenous culture in the region. In the seventeenth and eighteenth…
Communication Breakdown
Spanish merchants engaged in long distance trade during the Early Modern era faced a multitude of risks and uncertainties. Inclement weather, enemy forces, piracy, unpredictable markets, and a pano
Colonial Institutions and Cross-Cultural Trade
Colonial societies exhibit peculiar institutions frequently attributed to the unequal and exploitative nature of the relations between colonizer and colonized. Repartimiento has been depicted as a coercive system of production and consumption designed by Spaniards to draw reluctant Amerindians into the market. An examination of repartimiento through the lens of New Institutional Economics provides an alternative understanding of this credit syste…
Risky Ventures
Historians of colonial Mexico have long condemned Spain's highly regimented system of colonial trade and the merchants who v^ere its primary beneficiaries. Observing what they have perceived to be anti-competitive behavior, historians have concluded that an elite group of merchants, most notably the members of the Mexican and Spanish Consulados, were engaged in the erection of commercial monopolies designed to generate extraordinary profits. This…
Coerced or Voluntary? TheRepartimientoand Market Participation of Peasants in Late Colonial Oaxaca
This article challenges the traditional depiction of the late colonialrepartimiento de comercioas a system of forced production and consumption. Employing a micro-economic analysis of therepartimiento'soperation in Oaxaca, it argues that peasant participation in thealcaldes mayores' repartimientoswas voluntary, not coerced, and that therepartimientoshould be understood instead as a system of consumer and producer credit designed to operate under …
Maya and Spaniard in Yucatán, 1648-1812
A study of the development of human society in Yucatan during the colonial period, this book poses a challenge to a variety of accepted views, including the notion that Yucatan was largely isolated from the main part of Spain's New World empire and thus from international markets and the world economy - an isolation often cited as the principal reason for the extended survival of indigenous culture in the region. In the seventeenth and eighteenth…
Coerced or Voluntary? TheRepartimientoand Market Participation of Peasants in Late Colonial Oaxaca
This article challenges the traditional depiction of the late colonialrepartimiento de comercioas a system of forced production and consumption. Employing a micro-economic analysis of therepartimiento'soperation in Oaxaca, it argues that peasant participation in thealcaldes mayores' repartimientoswas voluntary, not coerced, and that therepartimientoshould be understood instead as a system of consumer and producer credit designed to operate under …
Relaciones de poder y comercio colonial
The nine essays contained in this book were originally presented as conference papers at the 1997 International Congress of Americanists in Quito, Ecuador. Heterogeneous in thematic and geographical focus, the work is useful, but not all that cohesive. The book is divided into two parts. Three chapters in part 1 examine the immensely important role played by the Spanish Consulado of Seville and later Cádiz. Six chapters of part 2 examine a wide v…
Mercados indígenas en México, Chile y Argentina
It was not long ago that historians viewed indigenous villages in colonial Spanish America as isolated communities, insulated from the marketplace except when forced to provide goods or services to their Spanish overlords. Over the past two decades, economic historians have shattered this erroneous image and have constructed a far more complex representation of the colonial economy. The six essays in this volume contribute to this process by incr…
Risky Ventures
Historians of colonial Mexico have long condemned Spain's highly regimented system of colonial trade and the merchants who v^ere its primary beneficiaries. Observing what they have perceived to be anti-competitive behavior, historians have concluded that an elite group of merchants, most notably the members of the Mexican and Spanish Consulados, were engaged in the erection of commercial monopolies designed to generate extraordinary profits. This…
Colonial Institutions and Cross-Cultural Trade
Colonial societies exhibit peculiar institutions frequently attributed to the unequal and exploitative nature of the relations between colonizer and colonized. Repartimiento has been depicted as a coercive system of production and consumption designed by Spaniards to draw reluctant Amerindians into the market. An examination of repartimiento through the lens of New Institutional Economics provides an alternative understanding of this credit syste…
Comercio y poder en América colonial
In the past few years, historians — especially from Latin America and Spain — have reexamined the central roles played by the consulado merchant guilds of both the peninsula and Spanish America. This present book, which evolved out of a 2000 conference held in Argentina, complements and builds on a 1999 volume on consulados by Enriqueta Vila Vilar and Allan Kuethe titled Relaciones de poder y comercio colonial (Escuela de Estudios Hispano-America…
Communication Breakdown
Spanish merchants engaged in long distance trade during the Early Modern era faced a multitude of risks and uncertainties. Inclement weather, enemy forces, piracy, unpredictable markets, and a pano
Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
In the eighteenth century, long-distance trade involved a multitude of risks and uncertainties. One of the greatest risks stemmed from unavoidable information asymmetries between parties, the inequality of information that each party possessed. Once merchants had shipped their cargoes to distant markets, they became utterly dependent on their network of correspondents and trade associates, any one of whom had the potential to act fraudulently, pe…
Staying Afloat
Social science history
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · History (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Economic history (6 works) · Economy (6 works) · Historical Studies in Latin America (5 works) · Latin American history and culture (5 works) · Law (5 works)