The fleet system and the troubled shipping institutions in the Portuguese Atlantic (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries).
Improvements in shipping productivity, resulting from increased maritime safety, are considered essential factors to explain commercial growth in long-distance trade between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. However, this article points out that for more than a century, the routes between Po...
| Publicado en: | Colonial Latin American Review Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 345 - 369 |
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Sep2023
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