Early Modern Atlantic Trade and the Development of Maritime Insurance to 1630
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4162595 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Ebert (0000-0002-5542-8712, City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 213 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-114 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Past & Present (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2746 • E-ISSN: 1477-464X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pastj/gtr011 |
| OpenAlex | W2312920413 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
During an age when Atlantic shipping was beset by many hazards, the voyage of de Hoope, which left Amsterdam in September 1616 to trade in Portugal and Brazil, appears to have been particularly unlucky. The ship lay in Porto in April 1617, where its captain, Engel Habet, and his brother had sold their cargo of salted perch and cod. The presence of these two Dutchmen in a Portuguese harbour at this time would have been quite normal. The long-distance trade in bulk commodities — carried out between the Iberian peninsula and the North and Baltic Seas and dominated by Dutch ships — accounted for an enormous volume of shipping. However, at this point the owners of the roughly two-hundred-ton ship perpetrated a fraud as they prepared to sail to Rio de Janeiro. Originally considered a ‘free’ trade (at least for the shipping of Catholic countries), European trade to Brazil from the late sixteenth century had come under increasingly restrictive interdictions imposed by the Habsburg monarchy that ruled both Spain and Portugal, which eventually prohibited the presence of foreigners and foreign shipping in Brazil. Therefore, the captain of de Hoope changed the ship's name, flag and documents and took on a Portuguese crew as he prepared to set out for Brazil; his vessel was now named the Esperança. But, finding it anchored in Porto harbour ready to depart as a ‘Portuguese’ vessel, agents of the Spanish/Portuguese crown commandeered it for transporting the newly appointed governor of Rio de Janeiro, Rui Vaz Pinto, to his post. At some point, presumably en route, Pinto realized that the ship and several of the crew were Dutch — which was not permitted in Brazil. So, upon arrival in Rio de Janeiro in June, Pinto ordered the captain and the Dutch crew members to be imprisoned. Nevertheless, some seven months later, for reasons still unclear, the Brazilian authorities let the ship set sail again from Rio de Janeiro to Portugal
Ancient history · Archaeology · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Governor · Harbour · Parade · Peninsula · Portuguese · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Engineering · Historical Studies on Spain · History
Bibliography of Books and Articles Published in English on Colonialism and Imperialism in 2011
Early Globalisation and the Brazil-Europe Trade
The Amsterdam Chamber of Insurance and Average
The instrument of private trade finance in the early modern global trade beyond Europe. Introduction to the collection of articles
Gambling with ocean hazards
And Thereabout
Marketing and Pricing Risk in Marine Insurance in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |