Merchants and Trade Networks in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1550-1800

1. Manuel Herrero Sanchez / Klemens Kaps: Connectors, Networks and Commercial Systems: Approaches to the study of early modern maritime trade history

Part I: Merchant networks, early modern long-distance trade and globalization: Theoretical considerations and historiographical reappraisal

2. Xabier Lamikiz: Networks, Social Capital and Trust in Early Modern Long-Distance Trade: A Critical Appraisal

3. Montserrat Cachero Vinuesa: Understanding Networking: Theoretical Framework and Evidence from History

4. Ana Crespo Solana: The merchants and the beating of a butterfly's wings: from local to global in the transfer of economic behavior models in the 18th century

Part II: The social composition of networks: Cultural Identities versus Transnationality

5. Eberhard Crailsheim: French and Flemish merchants in Seville as connectors of European and American markets (1570-1650)

6. Jose Luis Gasch Tomas: Cochineal, silver and porcelain from New Spain to Iberia. The commercial network of Santi Federighi (1600-1643)

7. Manuel F. Fernandez Chaves & Mercedes Gamero Rojas: Nations? What nations? Bussiness in the shaping of international trade networks in XVIIIth century Seville

Part III: Connecting Spaces: Networks and Systems, Merchants and Political Economies

8. Margrit Schulte Beerbuehl: Interconnecting trade regions: International networks of German merchants in the eighteenth century

9. Pablo Hernandez Sau: Bouligny's family network: Between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean (1700-1780)

Part IV: The complexity of networks: Formal and Informal Exchange mechanisms and rupture of merchant cooperation

10. Bethany Aram: Hides and the Hispanic Monarchy: From Contraband to Royal Privilege

11. Sheryllynne Haggerty: The Providence: When Networks Don't Exist