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Favor, setback, and resilience: French merchants’ penetration into the Spanish Atlantic monopoly and the New Spain market, 1620-1640
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences. (Center for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1734-2280
2026 (English)In: Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, ISSN 0212-6109, E-ISSN 2041-3335, Vol. 44, p. 9-37Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Abstract [en]

This article examines the factors that enabled French merchants to enter the Spanish Indies markets during the 1620s, particularly in the period betwen the Peace of Monzón (1627) and the outbreak of the Franco-Spanish War (1635). It highlights how the French nation of Seville received unprecedented support from the Crown to develop their marginal enterprises in the Carrera de Indias. Royal patronage played a significant role in integrating—or exluding—wealthy merchant communities from the Spanish Atlantic trading system, therby expanding their networks for direct exchanges with the Americas. The study reconstructs French commercial connections within the Spanish Atlantic trade, contextualized alongside Flemish and Italian networks already operating in New Spain. These three nations dominated much of the cargo legally shipped to and from the viceroyalty in the 1620s and 1630s. The analysis details French business interactions with “native” and “foreign” merchants, their resilience following the economic reprisal of 1635, and observations on the reconfiguration of foreign trading networks alongthe New Spain axis during the Spanish Empire’s economic and political crises of the 1640s.

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El artículo examina los factores que facilitaron la entrada de los comerciantes franceses en la Carrera de Indias y en los mercados americanos durante la década de 1620, en particular desde la firma de la Paz de Monzón (1627) y el inicio dela Guerra Franco-Española (1635). Destaca el apoyo sin precedentes que recibió la nación francesa de Sevilla por parte de la Corona para desarrollar sus negocios, hasta entonces marginales, en la Carrera de Indias. El patrocinio real contribuyó significativamente a la integración –o exclusión– de las comunidades mercantiles extranjeras en el sistema comercial atlántico español, facilitando la ampliación de sus redes para el intercambio directo con América. El estudio reconstruye las conexiones francesas dentro del comercio atlántico español, contextualizadas junto con las redes flamencas e italianas que operaban en Nueva España. Estas tres naciones controlaban gran parte de la carga que se enviaba legalmente hacia y desde el virreinato en las décadas de 1620 y 1630. El análisis detalla las interacciones comerciales francesas con mercaderes “naturales” y “extranjeros”, su resiliencia tras la represalia general de 1635 y algunas observaciones sobre la reconfiguración de las redes comerciales extranjeras en el eje novohispano durante la crisis económica y política de la monarquía en la década de 1640.

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Cambridge University Press, 2026. Vol. 44, p. 9-37
Keywords [en]
Atlantic trade, foreign merchant networks, economic warfare, Franco-Spanish War
Keywords [es]
Comercio atlántico, redes comerciales extranjeras, guerra económica, Guerra Franco-española
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Humanities, History
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-141366DOI: 10.1017/s0212610925100645ISI: 001563611700001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105014726990OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-141366DiVA, id: diva2:1993918
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Swedish Research Council, 2020-02133Available from: 2025-09-01 Created: 2025-09-01 Last updated: 2026-05-27Bibliographically approved

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