{"id":61,"date":"2010-10-06T09:34:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T13:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watkinson.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=61"},"modified":"2015-08-12T16:33:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T16:33:43","slug":"this-just-in-new-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2010\/10\/06\/this-just-in-new-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"This just in (new acquisition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/10\/silva.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-62\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/10\/silva.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/10\/silva.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/10\/silva-185x300.jpg 185w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2010\/10\/silva-634x1024.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a>Lisboa, Jos\u00e9 da Silva.\u00a0 <em>Principios de Direito Mercantil, e Leis de Marinha para uso da mocidade portugueza, destinada, ao commercio<\/em>.\u00a0 (Lisbon: Impress\u00e3o Regia, 1801-1819).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0work first appeared in 1798 (here expanded), proved highly influential, and was a pioneer of its kind published in Portuguese.\u00a0 It covers such matters as insurance, commercial risk, averages, foreign exchange, contracts, the conduct of the ships\u2019 company, and mercantile law.\u00a0 The author was a native of Bahia and a distinguished political economist, who later became Visconde de Cair\u00fa.\u00a0 He attributed many of the ills of Brazilian society to the reliance on negro slaves and later in 1818 ascribed the progress in S\u00e3o Paulo to the preponderance of the white race there (Maxwell, <em>Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal 1750-1808<\/em>, 1973, pp. 227-8).\u00a0 \u201cIn Portugal the harshest critic of the colonial system was Jos\u00e9 da Silva Lisboa . . . who guided the economic policy of Dom Jo\u00e3o VI in Brazil . . . Upholding liberal principles, he spread the ideas of Adam Smith in numerous works\u201d (Emilia Viotti da Costa, \u201cThe Political Emancipation of Brazil,\u201d IN<em> From Colony to Nation: Esays on the Independence of Brazil<\/em>, ed. by Russell Wood, 1975).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisboa, Jos\u00e9 da Silva.\u00a0 Principios de Direito Mercantil, e Leis de Marinha para uso da mocidade portugueza, destinada, ao commercio.\u00a0 (Lisbon: Impress\u00e3o Regia, 1801-1819).\u00a0 This\u00a0work first appeared in 1798 (here expanded), proved highly influential, and was a pioneer of its kind published in Portuguese.\u00a0 It covers such matters as insurance, commercial risk, averages, foreign exchange, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}