This book offers a fascinating exploration into the evolution of the Portuguese economy over
the course of eight centuries, from the foundation of the kingdom in 1143, when political …

In this paper we survey the study of social networks and their application to economic
history. We take the perspective of the applied researcher and focus on empirical methods …

In the early modern period, trade became a truly global phenomenon. The logistics, financial
and organizational complexity associated with it increased in order to connect distant …

In recent years, a growing number of historians have, to varying degrees, drawn on socio-
economic theory to analyse and explain the organisation of long-distance trade in the early …

This article addresses the partial equilibrium functioning of the short‐term credit market in
eighteenth‐century Lisbon and its response to massive gold inflows from Brazil. Gold inflows …

Recent historians have highlighted the importance of the web of illicit commercial
transactions which connected competing imperial networks to create an integrated Atlantic …

The expanding sugar trade linking Portugal, Brazil, and the Netherlands in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries required enforcement mechanisms to guarantee that overseas agents …

By examining how a Dutch firm in Lisbon operated two Portuguese tobacco tax farms from
1722 to 1727 and failed subsequently, this article brings together, on the one hand, research …

The thesis sustained in this essay is that–while it is true that there were some crises,
problems and blockages, and that development was by no means the same across all …

This dissertation examines the process of interiorization of the Portuguese colonization in
Brazil during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Portuguese empire-building in the …