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Partnership and Profit in the Early Andean Trade: The Experiences of Quito Merchants, 1580–1610

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

John C. Super
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Quito was an international trading city in the late sixteenth century. It was one of several commercial centers strung along the Andes that aided in the adaptation of Old World economic techniques to New World resources. By the 1580s, agricultural and manufacturing surpluses had helped Quito emerge as a dominant trading center in western South America, second only to Lima and Potosí.

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , November 1979 , pp. 265 - 281
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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