Trading Cacao
A View from Veracruz, 1629 - 1645
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4045913 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Ferry, Robert J Ferry (0000-0001-9228-3914, University of Colorado System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1626-0252 • E-ISSN: 1626-0252 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/nuevomundo.1430 |
| OpenAlex | W2000406807 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay examines several interrelated themes and uses a variety of research strategies to explore the general topic of chocolate and the cacao trade in early seventeenth-century Mexico. Based primarily on the records of the Mexico Tribunal of the Inquisition, the essay attempts to expand our understanding of the beginning of large-scale chocolate consumption in Mexico, of the inner workings of the business of buying, transporting, and selling cacao beans, and the business of chocolate sold at retail. A central section attempts to estimate the profit that was made in the cacao trade, offering a careful analysis of prices, taxes, and shipping costs. The essay ends with a biographical sketch of a Portuguese slave trader turned cacao merchant, Antonio Méndez Chillón, whose arrest in the port of Veracruz for Jewish heresy in 1645 ended his successful career
Business · Economics · Economy · Heresy · Political science · Sketch · Social science · Sociology · Historical Studies in Latin America · Historical Studies on Spain · History and Politics in Latin America · Law · Marketing
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |