| 總結: | This paper studies the trading networks established between New Spain and Castileduring the age of Philip II. Our starting point is a documentary database of more than 200 maritime insurance policies related to this trade, kept in the Burgos Consulate Archive, and covering the period between 1565 and 1586. Historians have never used these documents to study the Carrera de Indias [the colonial convoy system], even thoughBurgos was at the time the insurance center for the Spanish and Portuguese trade inAmerica. By analyzing the maritime insurance policies we can learn not only about the number of ships departing from Europe and Africa towardsNew Spain, but also about their merchandises and the incidents during the journeys. Moreover, since the documents have the names of the consignees living inMexico, as well as of the merchants who insured their merchandises inSpain andPortugal, we can reconstruct some of the features of the trading and social networks established between both parts of the Spanish Empire during those years.
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