The Atlantic world and the Manila galleons : circulation, market, and consumption of Asian goods in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1650 / by José L. Gasch-Tomás.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gasch-Tomás, José L., author.

Contributor:

Hiram G. Haney Fund.

Series:

Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 37.

The Atlantic world : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830 ; volume 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commerce.

History.

Asia--Commerce--Latin America--History--16th century.

Asia.

Asia--Commerce--Latin America--History--17th century.

Spain--Commerce--Asia--History--16th century.

Spain.

Asia--Commerce--Spain--History--16th century.

Spain--Commerce--Asia--History--17th century.

Asia--Commerce--Spain--History--17th century.

Commerce--History.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xvi, 257 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

In The Atlantic World and the Manila Galleons. Circulation, Market, and Consumption of Asian Goods in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1650, Jose L. Gasch-Tomas offers an account of the trade of Chinese silk and porcelain, and Japanese pieces of furniture, between colonial Spanish America and Asia across the Pacific Ocean, during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The author also addresses the re-exportation of Asian goods from Spanish America to Iberia, the consumption of these goods in the Spanish Empire, and the conflicts derived from growing exchanges between the Americas and East Asia both in the international area and within the Spanish Empire. Making use of extensive historical sources, this book balances the predominant view on the history of the encounter between the Atlantic World and Asia during the early modern era, which on the Atlantic side stresses the importance of the Cape route, by using a framework that puts the Pacific Ocean and Spanish American elites in the centre of the explanation.

In The Atlantic World and the Manila Galleons. Circulation, Market, and Consumption of Asian Goods in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1650, Jose L. Gasch-Tomas offers an account of the trade of Chinese silk and porcelain, and Japanese pieces of furniture, between colonial Spanish America and Asia across the Pacific Ocean, during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The author also addresses the re-exportation of Asian goods from Spanish America to Iberia, the consumption of these goods in the Spanish Empire, and the conflicts derived from growing exchanges between the Americas and East Asia both in the international area and within the Spanish Empire.0Making use of extensive historical sources, this book balances the predominant view on the history of the encounter between the Atlantic World and Asia during the early modern era, which on the Atlantic side stresses the importance of the Cape route, by using a framework that puts the Pacific Ocean and Spanish American elites in the centre of the explanation.

Contents:

1.1 Historical Issues and Debates: Globalisation, Trade, and Consumption History p. 4

1.2 Approach, Sources, and Methodology p. 10

1.3 Mexico City, Seville, and Manila in 1600: Population and Institutions p. 14

2 From Asian Goods to Asian Commodities in the Spanish Empire p. 27

2.1 Agents and Forms of Transfer of Asian Goods p. 28

2.2 The Role of Women in the Transmission of Asian Goods p. 39

2.3 The Retail Trade of Asian Goods in New Spain p. 42

3 Commerce in the Pacific and the Atlantic and Interaction between the Two Oceans p. 49

3.1 Transformations in the Philippine Economy p. 50

3.2 The Trade of Asian Goods in the Spanish Empire at Its Apogee (1580-1630) p. 56

3.3 Silk for Silver in the Manila Galleon Trade p. 69

3.4 The Decline of Asian Trade in the Spanish Empire (1630-1650) p. 75

4 Trans-Pacific Trade and the Political Economy of the Spanish Empire p. 91

4.1 Mexico's Guild of Merchants and the Trade of the Manila Galleons p. 94

4.2 Mexican Merchant Strategies of Investing in the Manila Galleons p. 106

4.3 The Struggle for Silver and the Regulation of Trans-Pacific Trade p. 114

5 Impact of the Manila Galleon Trade on Hispanic Production of Manufactured Goods p. 129

5.1 The Impact of Chinese Silk on Castilian and New Spanish Industries p. 131

5.2 Knowledge Transfer and "Import Substitution" Industries in New Spain p. 140

6 Consumption Habits, Fashions, and Taste for Asian Manufactured Goods among Elites in Mexico City and Seville p. 153

6.1 Identification of the Elites of Seville and the Creole and Iberian Elites of Mexico City p. 154

6.2 Social Aspects of the Consumption of Asian Manufactured Goods in Mexico City and Seville p. 165

6.3 Asian Material Culture in the Spanish Empire p. 176

7 The Manila Galleons - An American Bridge from Asia to Europe p. 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hiram G. Haney Fund.

ISBN:

9789004369283

9004369287

OCLC:

1043567705