Tabla de Contenidos: “…Klemens Kaps : connectors, networks and commercial systems: approaches to the study of early modern maritime trade history / Manuel Herrero Sánchez -- Merchant networks, early modern long-distance trade and globalization : theoretical considerations and historiographical reappraisal -- Networks, social capital and trust in early modern long-distance trade : a critical appraisal / Xabier Lamikiz -- Understanding networking : theoretical framework and evidence from history / Montserrat Cachero Vinuesa -- The merchants and the beating of a butterfly's wings : from local to global in the transfer of economic behavior models in the 18th century / Ana Crespo Solana -- The social composition of networks : cultural identities versus transnationality -- French and flemish merchants in seville as connectors of European and American markets (1570-1650) / Eberhard Crailsheim -- Cochineal, silver and porcelain from new Spain to Iberia : the commercial network of Santi Federighi (1600-1643) / José Luis Gasch Tomás -- Nations' what nations bussiness in the shaping of international trade networks in xviiith century Seville / Manuel F. …”