Overview
- Covers a variety of aspects, including economy, demography, consumption and art, and provides attractive illustrations
- Becomes the first book on Early Globalization from an Iberian perspective
- Incorporates well known authors in the field
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History (PASTCGH)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Early Globalization: Description and Some Consequences
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Trade and Consumption of Textiles in the Early Globalization
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Early globalization
- Iberian empires
- Market integration
- Consumer revolution and Asian goods
- Manila Galleon and the Age of Trade
- Austrian mining industry
- Silver production, prices and globalization
- Asian textiles in Portugal and Brazil
- Oriental Goods in New Spain
- Iberian Empires & Transatlantic Migration 1492-1808
About this book
This book presents an unusual view on one of the most influential periods in world economic history: the Early Globalization. By this term, the notion that a process of genuine globalization took place in the Early Modern Era is defended. The authors propose that the canonical globalization—that of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—was preceded by a century-long increasing economic integration between continents that were non-existent before 1492. The economic aspects of the Early Globalization, like market integration, price co-movements and international silver circulation, were very important. Notwithstanding, other dimensions of human life, which were affected by unprecedented intercontinental contacts, including free and forced migrations, changes in tastes and consumption, etc. The Fruits of Globalisation deals with some of the most important issues among the former and the latter.
The book combines approaches from different disciplines, including quantitative and non-quantitative economic history, econometrics, international trade and demography. Overall, the vision of the Early Globalisation offered in this book is less pessimistic than in mainstream literature on the period.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rafael Dobado-González is Professor of Economic History, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He was Tinker visiting Professor at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Columbia University, New York, USA, in the second semester of 2010, and visiting scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, USA, on several occasions. He has numerous publications in economic history journals and books.
Alfredo Garcia-Hiernaux is Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain and researcher at Complutense Institute of Economic Analysis (ICAE). His research interests include econometrics and economic history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Fruits of the Early Globalization
Book Subtitle: An Iberian Perspective
Editors: Rafael Dobado-González, Alfredo García-Hiernaux
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69666-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69665-8Published: 03 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69668-9Published: 04 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69666-5Published: 02 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-7965
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7973
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 314
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Globalization