Alejandro García Montón - Transforming the Atlantic World from the Mediterranean: Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700

Alejandro García Montón is Assistant Professor in the Economic History Department at the Universidad de Granada since 2022. He studied History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid before receiving a PhD in History & Civilization from the European University Institute (Florence) in 2014. Prior to moving to Granada, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville). His research focuses on the history of early modern Genoese capitalism, the trans-imperial African slave trade in the Atlantic world, and the mercantile cultures in the Spanish empire. Among other publications, he is the author of the book Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700 (Routledge, 2022). He is also a review editor for the Journal of Early American History (Brill).