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The purpose of this congress is to gather specialists interested in studying trade through its representation.
Although the social valuation of trade has changed over time, its image has been generally profoundly negative in almost all traditional societies. In the Western world, Christianity morally stigmatized the profession of commerce, and the identification of commerce with certain social minorities favored its exclusion and self-marginalization. Since the discovery of the New World, however, commerce progressively became a relevant magnitude in interstate relations, and with it the commercial activity was changing its status; at the same time, the merchant improved his social image until he became even a model or example of behavior.
This transformation makes the period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries particularly relevant to study the complex dynamics of transformations in cultural perceptions about trade. On the other hand, Spain and Portugal appear in that period as powers in whose struggle for hegemony commerce occupied a prominent place from the beginning. The Iberian monarchies had to accommodate communities of merchants of very diverse origins and give them legal and institutional recognition, as well as relate to those of other cultures. In both monarchies, speeches also proliferated about the social, cultural and political status of the merchant, while the activity of the merchants helped to name and disseminate a whole series of raw materials converted into merchandise for the first global trade. Finally, both share an experience of imperial decline that was once largely interpreted in terms of trade decline, and for whose overcoming already in the eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain had to incorporate new ways of thinking and promote trade and merchants.

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Organization

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