Rio De Janeiro and the Silver Mining Economy of Potosi: Trans-Imperial, Global, and Contractual Approaches to South Atlantic Markets (18th Century)

Abstract

This paper’s main goal is to advance some considerations on the interrelations between port cities and capital. More specifically, it sheds light on how these interdependencies took place in the eighteenth-century Portuguese and Spanish Atlantic world. This paper thus seeks to draw an urban political economy in transimperial, global, and contractual perspectives. For so doing, particular attention will be put to Rio de Janeiro’s projection far beyond the South Atlantic, and in particular, its interconnections with the Rio de la Plata basin and Potosi markets. Attention will also be paid to the impact of and repercussions that far-flung economic phenomena had for the urban domestic markets.

Le financement du commerce de l’Asie au cours des derniers vingt-cinq ans du XVIIIe siècle

“…A historiadora afirma que, de facto, se verifica uma escassez no período identificado por Godinho, mas que a partir de 1713, com a assinatura do Tratado de Utrecht e a passagem da Colónia do Sacramento para administração portuguesa, a prata espanhola passa a ser enviada a Lisboa a partir do Rio de Janeiro (Sousa, 2011: 393). Esta ideia é reforçada pelos trabalhos de Bohorquez (2020aBohorquez ( , 2020b, o que por um lado estabelece o Rio de Janeiro como a principal fonte de acesso à prata pelos navios que saiam de Lisboa, e por outro tornam-no o principal centro de fornecimento de prata à metrópole.…”