Family Partnerships and International Trade in Early Modern Europe: Merchants from Burgos in England and France, 1470–1570

Constance Jones Mathers

Business History Review, 1988, vol. 62, issue 3, 367-397

Abstract: In fifteenth– and sixteenth–century Europe, international trade was often conducted by family partnerships. Commonly, one partner remained in the family's native land, while one or more family members established themselves temporarily or permanently abroad. In this article, Professor Mathers describes the mercantile activity of three families from the Spanish city of Burgos who profited from family partnerships that linked trade from northern Spain to England and France. She also examines the ways in which family inheritance practices and alternative family investments and expenditures affected the capital and continuity of the partnerships.

Date: 1988
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