Alejandro García-Montón
Biographic Data
| ID | 721297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandro García-Montón |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandro |
| FAMILY NAME | García-Montón |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA-MONTÓN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Pablo de Olavide |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0311-1876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Economic History of the Iberian Peninsula, 700–2000
This is a comprehensive long-run history of economic and political change in the Iberian Peninsula. Beginning with the development of the old medieval kingdoms, it goes on to explore two countries, Portugal and Spain, which during the early modern period possessed vast empires and played an essential role in the global economic and political developments. It traces how and why both countries began to fall behind during the first stages of industr…
Seducing Smugglers
This article offers new insight into the relationship between formal trade and contraband in the mid-17th century Caribbean in the light of the asiento slave trade. It disentangles the circumstances in which merchants chose their preferred channels to conduct business and explores why they made these decisions. By analyzing the early contracts between Dutch and English slave traders with the firm of Grillo and Lomellino to service the asiento sla…
An Atlantic Slave Trade Stretching from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and Beyond
The study of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is becoming increasingly sophisticated, diverse, and international. Challenging prevailing stereotypes about the dominance of northern European business interests, García Montón’s study shows the persistent vigor of Genoa’s merchant community in this examination of the asiento system that emerged in the mid-seventeenth century and continued into the mid-eighteenth century. Along the way, he also illumin…
Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700
This book explains how Genoese entrepreneurs transformed the structures of global trade during the second half of the seventeenth century. The author reconstructs the business network built by the Genoese merchant Domenico Grillo between the 1650s and the 1680s. Grillo’s business interests stretched from the Mediterranean to Pacific South America, traversing and joining the Spanish, Dutch, and English Atlantics. He and his associates created a ne…
Comercio local en una encrucijada global
El istmo de Panamá fue un centro de tráfico comercial clave en la articulación de algunas de las cadenas de intercambios de mayor impacto a nivel global durante la edad moderna, como el tráfico de esclavos africanos hacia el Perú o el comercio de plata potosina hacia China vía la península ibérica. A pesar de ello, sabemos muy poco sobre las formas y las características que adoptaron los intercambios cotidianos en el istmo, no dirigidos al negoci…
La primera globalización desde América
El espacio americano posiblemente fue el continente que se transformó de manera más intensa durante la primera globalización. Tras el deshielo del estrecho de Bering, el contacto entre este continente y el resto del globo se hizo a través de las grandes masas oceánicas que lo circundan. En larga medida, los sistemas de navegación transatlántica y transpacífica que forjó y promocionó el imperio español – la Carrera de Indias y el Galeón de Manila,…
The Rise of Portobelo and the Transformation of the Spanish American Slave Trade, 1640s-1730s
This article analyzes the rise of Portobelo as the most important center of the Spanish American slave trade from the 1660s to the 1730s. Portobelo's emergence was one of the most striking results of the structural transformation that the slave trade to Spanish America underwent between the 1640s and the 1650s. In these years, intra-American transimperial shipping displaced direct slave voyages from Africa to the Spanish Caribbean. By focusing on…
De gobernantes y deudas. Una década de producción historiográfica sobre la Castilla de los Austrias
The economic, political, financial and social crisis that broke out in 2008 has brought fateful consequences for the so-called welfare states. At the light of the social and ideological impact of this “crisis”, social scientists have inquired themselves about how rulers financed their states in past times, what kind of solutions they created, or how did they deal with private capital markets. This article examines how historians have approached t…
Distant Tyranny
The Rise of Portobelo and the Transformation of the Spanish American Slave Trade, 1640s-1730s
This article analyzes the rise of Portobelo as the most important center of the Spanish American slave trade from the 1660s to the 1730s. Portobelo's emergence was one of the most striking results of the structural transformation that the slave trade to Spanish America underwent between the 1640s and the 1650s. In these years, intra-American transimperial shipping displaced direct slave voyages from Africa to the Spanish Caribbean. By focusing on…
Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700
This book explains how Genoese entrepreneurs transformed the structures of global trade during the second half of the seventeenth century. The author reconstructs the business network built by the Genoese merchant Domenico Grillo between the 1650s and the 1680s. Grillo’s business interests stretched from the Mediterranean to Pacific South America, traversing and joining the Spanish, Dutch, and English Atlantics. He and his associates created a ne…
La primera globalización desde América
El espacio americano posiblemente fue el continente que se transformó de manera más intensa durante la primera globalización. Tras el deshielo del estrecho de Bering, el contacto entre este continente y el resto del globo se hizo a través de las grandes masas oceánicas que lo circundan. En larga medida, los sistemas de navegación transatlántica y transpacífica que forjó y promocionó el imperio español – la Carrera de Indias y el Galeón de Manila,…
Distant Tyranny
De gobernantes y deudas. Una década de producción historiográfica sobre la Castilla de los Austrias
The economic, political, financial and social crisis that broke out in 2008 has brought fateful consequences for the so-called welfare states. At the light of the social and ideological impact of this “crisis”, social scientists have inquired themselves about how rulers financed their states in past times, what kind of solutions they created, or how did they deal with private capital markets. This article examines how historians have approached t…
Comercio local en una encrucijada global
El istmo de Panamá fue un centro de tráfico comercial clave en la articulación de algunas de las cadenas de intercambios de mayor impacto a nivel global durante la edad moderna, como el tráfico de esclavos africanos hacia el Perú o el comercio de plata potosina hacia China vía la península ibérica. A pesar de ello, sabemos muy poco sobre las formas y las características que adoptaron los intercambios cotidianos en el istmo, no dirigidos al negoci…
La primera globalización desde América
El espacio americano posiblemente fue el continente que se transformó de manera más intensa durante la primera globalización. Tras el deshielo del estrecho de Bering, el contacto entre este continente y el resto del globo se hizo a través de las grandes masas oceánicas que lo circundan. En larga medida, los sistemas de navegación transatlántica y transpacífica que forjó y promocionó el imperio español – la Carrera de Indias y el Galeón de Manila,…
The Rise of Portobelo and the Transformation of the Spanish American Slave Trade, 1640s-1730s
This article analyzes the rise of Portobelo as the most important center of the Spanish American slave trade from the 1660s to the 1730s. Portobelo's emergence was one of the most striking results of the structural transformation that the slave trade to Spanish America underwent between the 1640s and the 1650s. In these years, intra-American transimperial shipping displaced direct slave voyages from Africa to the Spanish Caribbean. By focusing on…
Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700
This book explains how Genoese entrepreneurs transformed the structures of global trade during the second half of the seventeenth century. The author reconstructs the business network built by the Genoese merchant Domenico Grillo between the 1650s and the 1680s. Grillo’s business interests stretched from the Mediterranean to Pacific South America, traversing and joining the Spanish, Dutch, and English Atlantics. He and his associates created a ne…
An Atlantic Slave Trade Stretching from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and Beyond
The study of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is becoming increasingly sophisticated, diverse, and international. Challenging prevailing stereotypes about the dominance of northern European business interests, García Montón’s study shows the persistent vigor of Genoa’s merchant community in this examination of the asiento system that emerged in the mid-seventeenth century and continued into the mid-eighteenth century. Along the way, he also illumin…
An Economic History of the Iberian Peninsula, 700–2000
This is a comprehensive long-run history of economic and political change in the Iberian Peninsula. Beginning with the development of the old medieval kingdoms, it goes on to explore two countries, Portugal and Spain, which during the early modern period possessed vast empires and played an essential role in the global economic and political developments. It traces how and why both countries began to fall behind during the first stages of industr…
Seducing Smugglers
This article offers new insight into the relationship between formal trade and contraband in the mid-17th century Caribbean in the light of the asiento slave trade. It disentangles the circumstances in which merchants chose their preferred channels to conduct business and explores why they made these decisions. By analyzing the early contracts between Dutch and English slave traders with the firm of Grillo and Lomellino to service the asiento sla…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works)