TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction: Flotsam and Jetsam in the Historiography of Maritime Trade and Conflict
AU - Sicking, Louis
AU - Wijffels, Alain
PY - 2020/6/22
Y1 - 2020/6/22
N2 - Medieval and early-modern long-distance trade was fraught with risks. Maritime long-distance trade entailed specific risks. Adverse human and natural factors could easily result in a commercial venture’s partial or total loss. Such risks, especially when they materialized, often created conflicts of interests, which, in turn, could affect how the partially or entirely failed venture could be dealt with, but also how the various actors involved in the conflict of interest would deal with each other in future business ventures. Not surprisingly, historians have shown great interest in the various ways those actors have tried to manage and solve the ensuing disputes. Through the study of conflict management and resolution, much information can also be gained on the business practices themselves, and the different social groups who played, directly or indirectly, a part in their preparation, in carrying them out, and eventually in dealing with the anticipated or unanticipated effects of such enterprises. These social actors were manifold: apart from the merchants themselves, they include (and could at times be the same as the merchants) sailors, investors, holders of public offices, privateers, pirates…
AB - Medieval and early-modern long-distance trade was fraught with risks. Maritime long-distance trade entailed specific risks. Adverse human and natural factors could easily result in a commercial venture’s partial or total loss. Such risks, especially when they materialized, often created conflicts of interests, which, in turn, could affect how the partially or entirely failed venture could be dealt with, but also how the various actors involved in the conflict of interest would deal with each other in future business ventures. Not surprisingly, historians have shown great interest in the various ways those actors have tried to manage and solve the ensuing disputes. Through the study of conflict management and resolution, much information can also be gained on the business practices themselves, and the different social groups who played, directly or indirectly, a part in their preparation, in carrying them out, and eventually in dealing with the anticipated or unanticipated effects of such enterprises. These social actors were manifold: apart from the merchants themselves, they include (and could at times be the same as the merchants) sailors, investors, holders of public offices, privateers, pirates…
UR - https://brill.com/view/title/39048
U2 - 10.1163/9789004407992_002
DO - 10.1163/9789004407992_002
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789004380639
T3 - Studies in the History of International Law
SP - 1
EP - 18
BT - Conflict Management in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1000-1800
A2 - Sicking, Louis
A2 - Wijffels, Alain
PB - Brill | Nijhoff
CY - Leiden and Boston
ER -