Название: The Smugglers’ World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century VenezuelaАвтор: Jesse Cromwell
Издательство: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Год: 2018
Формат: pdf, epub
Страниц: 350
Размер: 13,64 Мб
Язык: английский
The Smugglers' World examines a critical part of Atlantic trade for a neglected corner of the Spanish Empire. Testimonies of smugglers, buyers, and royal officials found in Venezuelan prize court records reveal a colony enmeshed in covert commerce. Forsaken by the Spanish fleet system, Venezuelan colonists struggled to obtain European foods and goods. They found a solution in exchanging cacao, a coveted luxury, for the necessities of life provided by contrabandists from the Dutch, English, and French Caribbean.