Hacer de la necesidad virtud: el comercio textil de la Andalucía atlántica com América en el siglo XVIII

Resum

Textile products accounted for Spain's exports of more frequent and larger profits. With the opening of American markets this situation was strengthened, reaching unusual pro- portions. However, their study involves still major gaps. Western Andalusia in particular had a unique position to encourage this type of shipments, since in the eighteenth century Cadiz became the official seat of the Spanish monopoly with America. At the encouragement of this actually launched major initiatives, especially around the Bay of Cadiz and its hinter - land. But inter related benefits in manufacturing trade and investment failed to change the operating losses of the Spanish textile industry . The succession of adverse events in the late eighteenth and early decades of the nineteenth century ended with such initiatives, stimulated in part by the liberalization of trade in 1778. The foreigner, whose participation substitutes, filled the vacuum left by the national textile manufacturing and its phases are discussed here.