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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.
Contents
1 Introduction.- 2 Early Globalization: Arguments and Evidence.- 3 Harbingers of Modernity: an Iberian perspective.- 4 Silver production, prices and globalization in the eighteenth century.- 5 The Austrian mining industry and the Iberian globalization.- 6 The Manila Galleon and the Age of Trade.- 7 The reception of Asian textiles in Portugal and Brazil: impact and consequences (1500- 1800).- 8 Oriental Goods in New Spain: Trade, Fashion, Race, and Consumption.- 9 The Trade and the Consumption of European products at the beginning of 18th century in New Spain based on Jean de Monségur's memoirs".- 10 Iberian Empires & Transatlantic Migration 1492-1808.
