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    A KINGDOM OF FLOATING MARKETS
    (Pompeu Fabra University, 2022) James Vladimir Torres Moreno; José Leonardo Henao Giraldo
    The article studies the importance of river trade flows and inland port services in the Viceroyaltyof the New Kingdom of Granada (present-day Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama)during the late colonial period. By measuring the market size and structure of Mompox, oneof the region’s largest inland ports, the study provides materials to examine the extent ofmarket widening and deepening in Caribbean New Granada. Based upon a broad set of taxrecords, the paper contends, first, that Mompox’s population and the provisioning of thevessels that docked in the port promoted consumption linkages that intertwined a far-flungset of supply nodes along the waterways of the viceroyalty. Second, the paper argues thatriver traffic propelled the clusterization of a wide array of economic activities that had furthermultiplier effects on the region’s economy. Finally, the article uses unexplored pricedata to provide some tentative hypotheses on the mechanisms through which export-ledgrowth encouraged interregional river trade on the eve of colonial collapse.
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    Carlos Marichal. El nacimiento de la banca en América Latina. Finanzas y política en el siglo XIX. Ciudad de México: El Colegio de México, 2021. 508 páginas.
    (National University of Colombia, 2023) James Vladimir Torres Moreno
    A diferencia de Estados Unidos y Europa, la banca en América Latina emergió relativamente tarde y ha tenido una inusitada incapacidad para permear la actividad económica del continente. A través de cinco estupendos capítulos, el reciente libro de Carlos Marichal ofrece una síntesis analítica para retomar el problema y ofrecer nuevos derroteros en el estudio de la historia financiera latinoamericana. Se trata de la continuación de reflexiones decantadas en importantes volúmenes que el autor ha realizado sobre la deuda externa, el fisco virreinal, la banca central y las crisis financieras.
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    Credit networks and business dynamics in a viceregal capital: Santafé de Bogotá in the age of Charles III
    (Cambridge University Press, 2023) Oscar M. Granados; James Vladimir Torres Moreno
    This article provides aggregate data on credit flows in Santafé de Bogotá, the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (present-day Colombia, Ecuador and western Venezuela). By perusing a thorough report submitted to Bourbon authorities on notarial transactions, which included both ecclesiastical and non-ecclesiastical loans in the city, the article estimates the volume and size of lending activity while exploring how distinct types of credit interacted and shaped the business milieu of the region. It argues that by the late 1770s, Catholic Church lending had ceased to be the main source of investable funds in the region, with merchants and other non-ecclesiastical investors injecting growing funds into sectors traditionally avoided by ecclesiastical lenders such as commerce, mining and manufacturing. Network analysis suggests that merchants became brokers between different credit sources, alleviating information asymmetries and opening the credit market to borrowers with collateral and institutional restrictions willing to pay higher interest rates. Finally, by focusing on New Granada, the largest gold producer of the Spanish Empire, the article identifies some distinctive credit patterns that are different from those developed in silver-driven economies such as New Spain and Peru. Thus, the article provides new paths to study Latin American financial history.
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    INTRODUCCIÓN: INLAND PORTS IN THE ANGLO-IBERIAN ATLANTIC: NEW APPROACHES FROM ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND SOCIAL HISTORY
    (Pompeu Fabra University, 2022) James Vladimir Torres Moreno; Leonardo Moreno-Álvarez
    Inland waterways had an expansive role in the economic performance of preindustrialand early industrial societies. The lower freight rates and lower biomass consumptioncharacteristic of riverine trade allowed merchants to export bulky, low-value-to-weightcommodities to distant nodes and successfully compete in global, competitive markets.As a growing literature has shown, economies endowed with an extensive network of inlandwaterways were better positioned to benefit from regional specialization andSmithian growth.1 The increasing integration of markets in China, Europe, and other regionsbefore the twentieth century was driven, among other things, by fundamental organizationaland technological changes in river navigation, such as improvements in portfacilities, canalization, customs simplification, and elimination of barriers to entry.2 Theadvent of steam navigation strengthened the productivity gains in river trade, makingupriver navigation cost-effective and further connecting inland nodes to the expansivewaves of global trade.3
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    Sebastián Gómez González, ed. y trad. 2022. <em>Historia de dos monjes peregrinos. De Oriente a Occidente: la travesía de Mar Yahballaha y Rabban Sauma a finales del siglo XIII</em>. Medellín: Universidad de Antioquia. 150 pp. ISBN 9786287519930
    (El Colegio de México, 2025) James Vladimir Torres Moreno
    Sebastián Gómez González, ed. y trad. 2022. Historia de dos monjes peregrinos. De Oriente a Occidente: la travesía de Mar Yahballaha y Rabban Sauma a finales del siglo XIII. Medellín: Universidad de Antioquia. 150 pp. ISBN 9786287519930