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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.

From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country case studies from leading economic historians reveals that distinctive features of the fiscal state appeared across the region at different moments in time as a result of multiple independent but often interacting stimuli such as internal competition over resources, European expansion, international trade, globalisation and war. The essays offer a comparative framework for re-examining the causes of economic development across this period and show, for instance, the central role that the more effective fiscal systems of Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries played in the divergence of east and west as well as the very different paths to modernisation taken across the world

GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme ; www.gecem.eu. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003168058-1/introduction-1-bartolom%C3%A9-yun-casalilla https://www.gecem.eu/publications/index.html ; This introduction summarizes the main ideas that this book develops, which are central to understanding American globalization from the perspective of the history of consumption. It points out the relevant role of states and political economies, maybe greater than in Europe, in the distribution and introduction of European, Asian and African products in the New World, which partly explains why this process is characterized by the combination of coercion, commercial transactions and emulation. But this research also emphasizes the agency of the original American peoples in the hybridization of consumption patterns resulting from the conquest and colonization, as well as the relevance of "horizontal" relationships among the subalterns themselves, due especially to the crucial role played by enslaved populations of African origin. However, the interactions among so many populations led not to homogeneous fusion but instead to great social and regional disparities. Given the depth and dramatic character of the transformations underway, these changes in consumption patterns must also be associated with profound alterations in the original ecosystems. ; GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, Horizon 2020, project hosted at UPO

GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, www.gecem.eu. ; https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003168058-18/goods-commodities-spanish-america-bartolom%C3%A9-yun-casalilla?context=ubx&refId=66fbcbb0-1b2e-4236-b63a-2e9eba872783 ; www.gecem.eu ; https://www.gecem.eu/publications/index.html ; This chapter shows that the introduction of Eurasian and African products in Latin America should be understood as one more phase in a longer wave of globalization across Eurasia, which had one of its pillars in the so-called medieval Islamic green revolution, of which Iberia was a cross-roads. Contrary to the model of ecological imperialism established by Crosby, the idea is defended that American globalization also meant the rise of very dynamic and hybrid ecosystems that would produce a new equilibrium and economic growth. The result is a more nuanced and constructive conception of ecological imperialism, which implied, on the other hand, a qualitative leap in the history of humanity that made America the main stage and the laboratory for the long-run development of unsustainable forms of exploitation. The complex mechanisms of diffusion and rejection of those products are also studied to underline how violence is inseparable from commerce or persuasion, as well as to what extent they are linked to deep social structural changes. The outcome is a path to consumerism that differs from the models normally used to understand what happened in Europe and a proposal to understand the history of consumption as inextricably associated with ecological history. ; GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, Horizon 2020, project hosted at UPO ; GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, Horizon 2020, project hosted at UPO

Producción Científica ; 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. ; Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico e Historia e Instituciones Económicas ; Junta de Andalucía (P09-HUM 5330) ; Ministerio De Economía Y Competitividad (HAR2014-53797-P)

GECEM (Global Encounters between China and Europe: Trade Networks, Consumption and Cultural Exchanges in Macau and Marseille, 1680-1840), a project hosted by the Pablo de Olavide University (UPO) of Seville (Spain). The GECEM project is funded by the ERC (European Research Council)-Starting Grant, ref. 679371, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, www.gecem.eu. The P.I. (Principal Investigator) is Professor Manuel Perez Garcia (Distinguished Researcher at UPO). Bartolome Yun-Csalilla is also director member of the Global History Network (GHN) in China www.globalhistorynetwork.com ; La historia global y la historia trasnacional (con base en la historia entrelazada) están rompiendo los moldes de la historia nacional consolidada a medida que se afianzaban los estados nacionales. Sin rechazar la necesidad de comprender la formación de estos últimos, sino al contrario, esta perspectiva brinda una visión abierta e integrada de las sociedades actuales y su pasado. Este volumen recoge una serie de reflexiones que sirven para reinterpretar la historia de Europa, España y el imperio español en América. Se trata así de revisar algunos tópicos y de integrar política, economía y cultura para ofrecer una imagen más poliédrica de la articulación del imperio y de la monarquía de los Austrias, las relaciones entre lo global y lo local, la globalización y europeización de modelos de consumo o la formación de un espacio económico y cultural europeo y atlántico durante la época moderna. ; GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, Horizon 2020, project hosted at UPO ; Versión del editor

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.