Great Trade Walls in Imperial China and Spain - Global Goods, Power Struggles and Bankruptcy, 1644-1840

This book offers a comparative and polycentric approach to the formation of global trade networks and goods that circumnavigated China, America, and Europe in the so-called process of ¿early globalization¿ during the early modern period.

List of contents

1. Intertwining history(ies) in the peripheries of the Spanish and Chinese empires 2. Interventionism and control on foreign trade in Qing China: the Canton System 3. Compelled to import: Cuban consumption at the dawn of the nineteenth century 4. Local failures of global companies: the slave trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1786-1790 5. Jesuits, exchanges, and Asian goods: A shipwreck and a cargo of musk in the seventeenth century 6. Overseas flows in Cartagena de Indias: The circulation of information in the Spanish empire during the eighteenth century

About the author

Manuel Perez-Garcia is tenured Associate Professor at the Department of History (School of Humanities) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China). He is Distinguished Researcher at the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain) and P.I. of GECEM Project funded by the ERC (European Research Council) Starting-Grant, ref. 679371, under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, www.gecem.eu, and is founder and director of the Global History Network in China (GHN). He is author of Global History with Chinese Characteristics Autocratic States along the Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires 1680–1796 (2021), Blood, Land and Power. The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period (2021), and Vicarious Consumers: Trans-National Meetings between the West and East in the Mediterranean World (1730–1808) (2013).

Summary

This book offers a comparative and polycentric approach to the formation of global trade networks and goods that circumnavigated China, America, and Europe in the so-called process of “early globalization” during the early modern period.

Product details

• Authors: Manuel (Shanghai Jiao Tong Universit Perez-Garcia
• Assisted by: Manuel Perez-Garcia (Editor), Perez-Garcia Manuel (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2023
• EAN: 9781032459936
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3245993-6
• No. of pages: 112
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, HISTORY / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Economic history, Colonialism and imperialism, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Slavery & abolition of slavery, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Slavery and abolition of slavery