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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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Philippines before the Spaniards
Monsoons, Islands, and the "Rim of Fire"
Native Peoples on the Shores
Barangays and the Age of Commerce after 1405
The Mountain Peoples
The Gold of the Visayas and the Harvest of Cowries
The Mediterranean Connection and the Long Post-1400 Trade Boom
China and the Islands before Spain
Chapter Two: The Origins of Spanish Settlement in the Philippines
Manila and the Origins of World Trade
Atlantic Silver in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
China and the Global Market in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The Discovery of the Sea: Iberians and Spices
The Military Revolution and the 35 Percent of the World
The Portuguese and the Vasco da Gama Era
Ferdinand Magellan
Spanish Expeditions to the Spice Islands
Miguel López de Legázpi
Spaniards in Luzon
Exploration of Luzon
Chapter Three: Spanish Settlement in the Philippines
The First Decades of the Colony and "The China Enterprise"
Settling Down in the Philippines
The "Magellan Exchange" and the Islands
A New Agricultural Regime
Reorganizing the Territory
The Colony's Finances
Native Contributions to the Colonial Economy
The Situado
The Role of Manila in the New Territorial Arrangements
Indirect Rule: The Principalía
Colonial Administration
Chapter Four: The Seventeenth Century
The "Little Ice Age"
The End of the Silver Cycle
The Eighty Years' War with the Netherlands
The Philippines and the War with the Dutch
The Moro Wars
Japan and the Friars
The Portuguese in Manila
The European Companies
The Armenian Diaspora
The New Christians' Mercantile Diaspora
The End of the Century
Chapter Five: The Galleons
The Line
The Voyage
Officers and Sailors
Acapulco
Chapter Six: The Economy of the Line
China and Silver in the Modern Era
Textiles and the Galleons
Galleon Line Regulations
A Royal Inspector's Visit
Chinese Merchants: The Sangleys
The Chinese Rebellion of 1603
The Rebellion of 1640
Chapter Seven: The Eighteenth Century and the Galleon Line
A New Ecological Regime
The Mexican Silver Cycle
The Tea and Opium Cycle
The War of Jenkins' Ear and the Manila Galleon
The Seven Years' War in the Philippines
The Chinese in Eighteenth-Century Philippines
Reforms in the Philippines
The Moro Wars in the Eighteenth Century
Changes in Spanish Imperial Policy
The End of the Galleon Trade
The End of the Line
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
