Great Trade Walls in Imperial China and Spain
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Great Trade Walls in Imperial China and Spain

Global goods, power struggles and bankruptcy, 1644-1840

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eBook - ePub

Great Trade Walls in Imperial China and Spain

Global goods, power struggles and bankruptcy, 1644-1840

About this book

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.

Based on a pioneering archival strategy developed by GECEM Project (Global Encounters between China and Europe www.gecem.eu ) and funded by the European Research Council (ERC), the chapters in this volume deploy innovative methodology built on the process of clustering new empirical evidence on geostrategic locations to analyse complex socioeconomic systems. Each chapter in this volume focuses on a specific case study that validate the usefulness of this methodology for a more accurate analysis of the self-regulating institutions, social networks, circulation of global goods and information, and smuggling activities that characterised the nonlinear markets of early modern China, Europe, and the Americas. These studies constitute a clear example of the new directions of global (economic) history and how a bottom-up approach through new data mining and comparative method helps to unveil big research questions. The designing of GECEM Project Database ( www.gecemdatabase.eu ) stands out as cutting-edge Digital Humanities tool used in this book.

This book is an insightful resource for scholars of Global History and Atlantic studies, including those interested in China's trade and history, and its global encounters with the West. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Frontispiece Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Citation Information
  9. Notes on Contributors
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. 1 Intertwining history(ies) in the peripheries of the Spanish and Chinese empires
  12. 2 Interventionism and control on foreign trade in Qing China: the Canton System
  13. 3 Compelled to import: Cuban consumption at the dawn of the nineteenth century
  14. 4 Local failures of global companies: the slave trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1786–1790
  15. 5 Jesuits, exchanges, and Asian goods: a shipwreck and a cargo of musk in the seventeenth century
  16. 6 Overseas flows in Cartagena de Indias: the circulation of information in the Spanish empire during the eighteenth century
  17. Index