Protestant, Catholic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23744899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nini Rodgers (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 119-144 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230625228_7 |
| OpenAlex | W4242657922 |
| ISBN | 9780230625228 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
When the Spanish crown acquired its valuable territories overseas it was quick to tie them closely into its mercantile and taxation system. From the start colonists paid the king a 3 percent sales tax the alcabala and he also received ‘the royal fifth’ on gold, silver, tobacco and sugar exported to Spain. Bernard O’Brien in his memorial seeking support for an Irish colony in Brazil stressed the corrupt nature of the Portuguese administration there, working determinedly to cheat Philip IV of his taxes. The goods from home which the settlers longed for, wine, textiles, swords, fire arms, metal tools, all arrived in Hispanic ships. Foreigners were not allowed to trade direct with the colonies, nor indeed were all of the Crown’s European subjects; in accordance with arrangements firmly rooted in the middle ages, specific regions and ports were given a monopoly of such commerce which was focused on Seville and Castile. When the Stuarts in England acquired their unprepossessing colonies on the North American mainland and their perilously tiny tobacco islands in the Caribbean, they took little interest in tying them closely to the metropolitan. Thus the early Irish settlers on Montserrat, like the colonists in all the other areas, traded freely with the Dutch and any other Europeans who appeared, gaining credit, expertise, slaves and cheap freight from across the Atlantic. But after the Restoration, in the later decades of the seventeenth century, the Crown discovering itself the possessor of valuable colonies with sugar in the Caribbean and tobacco in Virginia, began to develop a system of mercantile regulation. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Irish · Mainland · Monopoly · Political science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Studies in Latin America · Historical Studies on Spain · History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |