Curazao y la costa de Caracas
Subtitle: introducción al estudio del contrabando de la provincia de Venezuela en tiempos de la Compañía Guipuzcoana, 1730-1780
By: Ramón Aizpurua.
Contributors: Real Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas.
Series: Biblioteca de la Academia Nacional de la Historia.; 222
Publisher: Academia Nacional de Historia
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Caracas
Language: spa
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Smuggling -- Venezuela -- History -- 18th century.; Venezuela -- Commerce -- Netherlands Antilles -- Curaçao -- History -- 18th century.; Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) -- Commerce -- Venezuela -- History -- 18th century.; Netherlands -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century.; Venezuela -- History -- To 1810.
Description: "Important study of the dynamics of smuggling and influence of illicit trade on the development of late colonial Venezuelan economy. Tied into the ebb and flow of both international war and the Caracas company, contraband trafficking in hides, mules, tobacco, and cacao, exchanged for products such as comestibles, textiles, and slaves, reflected regional commercial norms. Smuggling therefore developed its own infrastructure that paralleled and even overlapped legal networks of provincial exchange and influence"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-417).
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.--Universidad de Barcelona (España), 1985.