Merchants and Trade Networks in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1550-1800

Klemens Kaps : connectors, networks and commercial systems: approaches to the study of early modern maritime trade history / Manuel Herrero Sánchez -- Merchant networks, early modern long-distance trade and globalization : theoretical considerations and historiographical reappraisal -- Networks, social capital and trust in early modern long-distance trade : a critical appraisal / Xabier Lamikiz -- Understanding networking : theoretical framework and evidence from history / Montserrat Cachero Vinuesa -- The merchants and the beating of a butterfly's wings : from local to global in the transfer of economic behavior models in the 18th century / Ana Crespo Solana -- The social composition of networks : cultural identities versus transnationality -- French and flemish merchants in seville as connectors of European and American markets (1570-1650) / Eberhard Crailsheim -- Cochineal, silver and porcelain from new Spain to Iberia : the commercial network of Santi Federighi (1600-1643) / José Luis Gasch Tomás -- Nations' what nations bussiness in the shaping of international trade networks in xviiith century Seville / Manuel F. Fernández Chaves & Mercedes Gamero Rojas -- Connecting spaces : networks and systems, merchants and political economies -- Interconnecting trade regions : international networks of German merchants in the eighteenth century / Margrit Schulte Beerbühl -- Bouligny's family network : between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean (1700-1780) / Pablo Hernández Sau -- The complexity of networks : formal and informal exchange mechanisms and rupture of merchant cooperation -- Hides and the hispanic monarchy : from contraband to royal privilege / Bethany Aram -- The providence : when networks don't exist / Sheryllynne Haggerty