Het omzeilen van monopoliehandel. Smokkel en belastingontduiking bij de handel in brazielhout, 1500-1674

Antunes, Cátia; Post, Rob; Salvado, João Paulo

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“…10My perusal of the notarial archives in Lisbon (Arquivos Nacionais Torre do Tombo, hereafter ANTT), Antwerp (Felix Archief) and Amsterdam (SAA) found numerous instances of business deals involving Portuguese government contracts, but as yet no specific references to Henrique Gomes da Costa or Gil Fernandes de Aires. For examples of scholarly works using these primary sources to examine Portuguese colonial contracts for the relevant period, see Antunes et al, “Het omzeilen van monopoliehandel”; Torrão, “Rotas Comerciais, Agentes Económicos.”…”

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The Ordeals of Colonial Contracting: Reactions to and Repercussions of Two Failed State-Private Ventures in Habsburg Portugal (1622–1628)

Pereira¹

2019

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Among the solutions devised by early modern Western European states to engage with the private sector in the governance of their overseas empires, the adjudication of revenue farms and colonial monopolies was often dismissed by historians on the grounds of being coercive, inefficient, and risk-exempt for the contractors. In reality, however, the threat of financial hardship and insolvency was very real, and not infrequently led to contractual removal, the seizure of collateralized assets, and even the imprisonment of the concessionaires.This article approaches the neglected topic of failure in big business in early seventeenth-century Portugal, an overlooked case of a contractor state that relied extensively on the adjudication of government contracts to finance and rule its overseas empire. By looking into the downward trajectories of two tax-farmers and the collapse of their contractual dealings, light will be shed on how the Crown and private entrepreneurs reacted to the repercussions of failure in these early modern public-private partnerships. It will also be shown how the road leading to termination was very much shaped by the political relationships between the Crown and its contractors and can only be understood in the context of wider relationships of brokerage, credit, and service between the two.

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