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The Age of Trade: The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy

The Age of Trade: The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy

Giraldez, Arturo

Hardcover

Series: Exploring World History

General Asian HistoryCentral American HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0742556638
ISBN13: 9780742556638
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Mar 20 2015
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This groundbreaking book presents the first full history of the Manila galleons, which marked the true beginning of a global economy. Arturo Giraldez, the world's leading scholar of the galleons, traces the rise of the maritime route, which began with the founding of the city of Manila in 1571 and ended in 1815 when the last galleon left the port of Acapulco in New Spain (Mexico) for the Philippines, establishing a permanent connection between the Spanish empire in America with Asian countries, most importantly China, the main supplier of commodities during that era. Throughout the two-and-a-half-century history of the Manila galleons, the strategic commodity fuelling global networks was always silver. Giraldez shows how this most important of precious metals shaped world history, with influences that stretch to the present.

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