{"product_id":"a-hydra-of-business-and-men-the-habsburg-asiento-de-negros-in-structuring-the-european-transatlantic-slave-trade-hardcover","title":"A Hydra of Business and Men: The Habsburg Asiento de Negros in Structuring the European Transatlantic Slave Trade - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCátia a. P. Antunes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlejandro García-Monton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eElisabeth Heijmans\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a historical and historiographical analysis of the Spanish \u003ci\u003easiento de negros\u003c\/i\u003e, a contract between the Spanish Monarchy and private parties to introduce specific number of enslaved Africans to Spanish America. As the Spanish American market was the largest single market for enslaved people prior to 1720, studying this colonial contract is essential for understanding the development of the most significant colonial contract of the long 17th century. The \u003ci\u003easiento\u003c\/i\u003e framed the European transatlantic slave trade for nearly two centuries and shaped much of the political economy of the Spanish Atlantic empire.\u003cbr\u003e This book is unique in providing the first comprehensive study of the \u003ci\u003easiento\u003c\/i\u003e since George Scelle's 1906 work (\u003ci\u003eLa traite négrière aux Indes de Castille. Contracts et traités d'assiento\u003c\/i\u003e, 2 vols.). Unlike Scelle, who focused on legal frameworks and presented the monarchy's perspective, this book examines the \u003ci\u003easientistas\u003c\/i\u003e themselves, offering insights into their business decisions and organizations. It concentrates on the period that gave rise to the idea of an \u003ci\u003easiento\u003c\/i\u003e and the Habsburg-era \u003ci\u003easientos\u003c\/i\u003e (1595-1713), preceding the so-called Bourbon reforms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCátia Antunes\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Global Economic Networks: Merchants, Entrepreneurs and Empires at the Institute for History at Leiden University. She is currently the principal investigator of the project \u003ci\u003eExploiting the Empire of Others\u003c\/i\u003e supported by the Dutch Research Council.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlejandro García-Montón\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economic Theory and Economic History of the Universidad de Granada. He specialises in the histories of pre-industrial capitalism with a focus on Mediterranean entrepreneurship, the political economy of Atlantic empires, and the articulation of trans-imperial slave trade in the Caribbean. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eGenoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700\u003c\/i\u003e (2022).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eElisabeth Heijmans\u003c\/b\u003e, Ph.D. (2018), Leiden University, is an economic and social historian specialised in French and Dutch early modern overseas expansions. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Agency of Empire: Connections and Strategies in French Overseas Expansion (1686-1746)\u003c\/i\u003e (2020).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eGerhard de Kok\u003c\/b\u003e works as a digital historian at the Huygens Institute of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he applies techniques from the field of AI to the study of history. In addition, he works on several Linked Open Data projects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSusana Münch Miranda\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor at the NOVA University of Lisbon, School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), and a researcher at CSG\/GHES, Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG). Her research focuses on early modern public finance, fiscal institutions, and transnational business networks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEdgar Pereira\u003c\/b\u003e is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the History of Society and Culture - Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (Portugal). His area of expertise is the interest aggregation between the early modern Iberian Crowns and business groups, with a particular focus on army and naval logistics, as well as overseas trade and taxation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoão Paulo Salvado\u003c\/b\u003e is a research fellow at CIDEHUS, University of Évora. His research interests lie at the intersection between economic history, social history, and the history of institutions in the early modern period. He has published on various topics, including the formation of business groups in the context of expanding foreign and colonial trade in 18th-century Lisbon and their embeddedness in transnational networks connecting Lisbon with European and colonial port cities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJulie Svalastog\u003c\/b\u003e, Ph.D. (2017), Leiden University, is an independent scholar and author of \u003ci\u003eMastering the Worst of Trades: England's Early Africa Companies and Their Traders, 1618-1672\u003c\/i\u003e (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9.25 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53845245034771,"sku":"9789004745087","price":182.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6300\/3667\/files\/YkHVdZk-fZ9789004745087.webp?v=1771440745","url":"https:\/\/finduslaw.com\/products\/a-hydra-of-business-and-men-the-habsburg-asiento-de-negros-in-structuring-the-european-transatlantic-slave-trade-hardcover","provider":"FindUSlaw Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}