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This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe's economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political economies. In spite of globalization's minor importance from the commercial perspective before 1750, this book finds its impact decisive for institutional development, political economies, and processes of state-building in Iberia and Europe. The book engages current historiographies and revindicates the need to take the concept of composite monarchies as a point of departure in order to understand the period's economic and social developments, analysing the institutions and societies resulting from contact with Iberian peoples in America and Asia. The outcome is a study that nuances and contests an excessively-negative yet prevalent image of the Iberian societies, explores the difficult relationship between empires and globalization and opens paths for comparisons to other imperial formations.

`Nuevos productos atlánticos, ciencia, guerra, economía y consumo en el Antiguo Régimen¿ (P09-HUM 5330), `Globalización Ibérica: redes entre Asia y Europa y los cambios en las pautas de consumo en Latinoamérica¿ (HAR2014-53797-P), GECEM (`Global Encounters between China and Europe www.gecem.eu), a project funded by the European Research Council-Starting Grant, ref. 679371 (under the European Union¿s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, Grupo Paidi (HUM-1000): Historia de la Globalizacion: Violencia, Negociacion e Interculturalidad ; Offers a leading analysis of the expansion of the Iberian empire expansion and the impact of early globalization on the Peninsula. Offers a comparative perspective on the impact of globalization on institutional development, the political economy, and processes of state-building in Europe. Contests a prevalent, excessively-negative image of the Iberian empire, counterpoising the difficult relationship between empires and globalization and opening the debate for comparisons to other imperial formations. ; Universidad Pablo de Olavide ; Versión del editor

This chapter aims at drawing attention to the role of the Spanish Empire in the circulation of technology and technological knowledge during this epoch. It focuses on the role of informal institutions and social networks regulating such circulation and examines the relationship between political power and the control of technological knowledge, as well as the often-simplified interplay between globalization and empire. ; GECEM Project, Global Encounters between China and Europe: Trade Networks, Consumption and Cultural Exchanges in Macau and Marseille (1680-1840), ERC (European Research Council)- Starting Grant, programa Horizon 2020, número de ref. 679371, www.gecem.eu. ; Versión del editor

Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examines the transatlantic transfer and transformation of goods and ideas, with particular emphasis on their reception in Europe

"Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examines the transatlantic transfer and transformation of goods and ideas, with particular emphasis on their reception in Europe. It critiques and enriches Atlantic history and the history of consumption by highlighting a degree of resistance to unfamiliar goods and information as well as the asymmetrical and violent nature of many types of exchange. It considers agents who forged networks and relations within and beyond the Spanish Empire, including Jesuit missionaries, Sephardic merchants, African laborers and farmers from Oaxaca to Santo Domingo to the Piedmont. While uniting increasingly homogenous and connected societies, the expansion of European horizons also generated diverse interests and divergent material cultures"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Old Regime Aristocracies, Colonial Elites and Economic Development: A Reconsideration -- Northern Europe -- Landlords and Economic Development in England, 1450-1800 -- The Characteristics of an Aristocratic Economy in France, 16th-18th Centuries -- The Economic Role of the Belgian Aristocracy in the 17th and 18th Centuries -- Southern Europe -- From Political and Social Management to Economic Management? Castilian Aristocracy and Economic Development, 1450-1800 -- The Aristocratic Estates in Portugal and their Management, 1600-1834 -- The Structure of Aristocratic Patrimonies in the Kingdom of Naples: Management Strategies and Regional Economic Development, 16th-18th Centuries -- Central and Eastern Europe -- Two Ages of Seigniorial Economy in Brandenburg-Prussia: Structural Innovation in the 16th Century, Productivity Gains in the 18th Century -- Entrepreneurship and Management on the Estates of the Austrian Nobility, 1550-1780 -- Economic Activity of the Polish Nobility and its Consequences: The Manorial System in the Early Modern Times -- Early Modern Russian Estate Management and Economic Development -- Colonial America -- The Role of Aristocratic Management Strategies in the Economic Development of the British North American Chesapeake -- Ephemeral Splendour and A Lengthy Tradition: The Peruvian Aristocracy of the Late Colonial Period -- Brazilian Sugar Planters as Aristocratic Managers, 1550-1825 -- Final Considerations: Aristocracies and Economic Progress under the Ancien Régime -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Through the study of political economies, and the introduction, rejection and adaptation of foreign goods in Spanish Latin America, this book addresses key aspects of the history of consumption, offering new insights on ecological globalization and the rise of global consumerism.

GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, www.gecem.eu. ; www.gecem.eu ; https://www.gecem.eu/publications/index.html ; Following a study on the world flows of American products during early globalization, here the authors examine the reverse process. By analyzing the imperial political economy, the introduction, adaptation and rejection of new food products in America, as well as of other European, Asian and African goods, American Globalization, 1492¿1850, addresses the history of consumerism and material culture in the New World, while also considering the perspective of the history of ecological globalization. This book shows how these changes triggered the formation of mixed imagined communities as well as of local and regional markets that gradually became part of a global economy. But it also highlights how these forces produced a multifaceted landscape full of contrasts and recognizes the plurality of the actors involved in cultural transfers, in which trade, persuasion and violence were entwined. The result is a model of the rise of consumerism that is very different from the ones normally used to understand the European cases, as well as a more nuanced vision of the effects of ecological imperialism, which was, moreover, the base for the development of unsustainable capitalism still present today in Latin America. ; GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, Horizon 2020, project hosted at UPO