...Daniel B. Domingues da Silva Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade provides important contributions to the literature on the history of Genoa, the Mediterranean, the Iberian Peninsula (particularly Spain), the Caribbean, and the Spanish Americas. It also provides valuable...

...Thomas F. McGann Antecedentes documentales sobre la topografía del asiento urbano de Córdoba durante los siglos XVI y XVII . By Colombres Carlos A. Luque . Córdoba, Argentina , 1954 . Ministerio de Educación de la Nación, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Filosofía y...

...Jean-Pierre Berthe Copyright 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Los asientos de trabajo y la provisión de mano de obra para los no-encomenderos en la ciudad de Santiago. 1586-1600 . By Jara Alvaro . Santiago de Chile . 1959 . Universidad de Chile . Estudios de Historia...

...Paul Lokken Abstract The evidence presented in this article establishes the era of the major Portuguese asientos (1595–1640) as a key moment in the history of African migration to Spanish Central America. Between 1607 and 1628 alone, Portuguese slave traders made at least 15 voyages from Angola...

...Jeffrey A. Cole Libros de asientos de la gobernación de la Nueva España: Período del Virrey don Luis de Velasco, 1550-1552 . Edited by Zavala Silvio . Mexico City : Archivo General de la Nación , 1982 . Illustrations. Indexes . Pp. 510 . Paper . Copyright 1984 by Duke...

... 1982 One of the prizes England won by the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 was the asiento , the monopoly of supplying Spain’s American colonies with slaves. The asiento was turned over to the South Sea Company until 1739 when the War of Jenkins’s Ear effectively terminated it. The asiento also...

... to the Spanish asiento of Latacunga. 16 The Franciscans were ordered to request authorization from the secular clergy to minister to the Spaniards residing in their jurisdictions. 17 Arguments based on both New World and Old World ideologies were very much in evidence in the discourse surrounding...

... the registros of the cajas reales de hacienda) over the last century of Spanish rule. Dramatic growth in royal revenue from pulque began in the 1760s with the change from asiento to royal collection; the yield from pulque taxes reached its peak in the early 1780s and gradually declined thereafter until...

... asiento families. A more precise portrait of group origins, sources of wealth, and so forth, might have been accomplished in a chapter devoted to prosopographical analysis. It should be understood, however, that such remarks come from a reviewer whose appetite has been whetted by a first-rate piece...

... (1740–1748) and effectively ended the asiento trade. Spain made efforts to curtail the contraband trade, particularly in the West Indies, leading to the War of the Quadruple Alliance in 1718, which prevented the South Sea Company from moving slaves and goods into Spanish American ports until 1722...

.... By the 1660s, this trade was already strong enough to become the source of a pricey monopolistic asiento contract. Later, the companies running the official slave trade also predominately used Portobelo-bound routes. The Isthmus of Panama's strategic location, which allowed it to act as a gateway for Peruvian...

... shifted to Spaniards. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the crown took over the largest mine and created an asiento (which lasted until 1787). For the next 150 years, lack of an adequate labor supply, inadequate credit sources, excise and other taxes, and high transportation costs all...

... avail, especially since the annual ship sent by the English South Sea Company undermined Spanish wares and prices. Walker perhaps attributes too much credit to this one ship, for it was as much a symbol of Spain’s weakness (the right to send the asiento ship granted in the wake of Spain’s poor show...

... half of the century, the asiento , a commercial treaty between the British and the Spanish crown to supply enslaved Africans to Spain's overseas territories, enabled the arrival of 40,000 of them (and probably some more through contraband) for the nascent production of sugar and other items...

... of Santa Fe offered to guarantee a fixed subsidy of 40,000 pesos for each of the five armadas. The king accepted the offer, which included an advance payment of 10,000 pesos on account of the armada of 1695. The most important quid pro quo of the asiento was the crown’s approval of the organization...

.... Seijas examines the transpacific slave trade within a global context of labor demands, slave trafficking, and imperial licensing processes (chapter 3). For example, changes in the Atlantic system after 1640 allowed owners of the asiento to acquire greater privileges; as a result, they sought to defend...

... shows how Patiño (from 1726 to 1736) accorded the guild favorable treatment, even permitting its native members to shut out jenízaros (locally born offspring of foreign fathers). This treatment ended soon after, however, when the War of the Asiento complicated matters and José del Campillo y Cossío...

... is a by-product of the Treaty of Utrecht: the asiento . How important was the asiento in quantitative terms as a drain on Spain and her empire? Or, was productivity enhanced by the addition to the colonial labor force, thus augmenting the output of the empire? It was slave labor, after all, that tended...

... of a modern economic and social history in the French “annales” tradition. Here he presents a reedition of two of his classic studies, written some 30 years ago: “Los asientos de trabajo y la provisión de mano de obra para los no-encomenderos en la ciudad de Santiago, 1586–1600” and “El salario de los indios...