The Atlantic world and the Manila Galleons / Jose L. Gasch-Tomas.

• Author: Tomas, Jose Gasch.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: The Atlantic World 37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (275 pages)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page /; Dedication /; Acknowledgments /; Early Modern Hispanic Measures and Currencies /; Abbreviations of Archives /; Figures, Illustrations, Maps, and Tables /; Map: Some main entrepôts where Asian goods-for-silver exchanges were conducted, c. 1565–1650 /; Introduction /; From Asian Goods to Asian Commodities in the Spanish Empire /; Commerce in the Pacific and the Atlantic and Interaction between the Two Oceans /; Trans-Pacific Trade and the Political Economy of the Spanish Empire /; Impact of the Manila Galleon Trade on Hispanic Production of Manufactured Goods /; Consumption Habits, Fashions, and Taste for Asian Manufactured Goods among Elites in Mexico City and Seville /; The Manila Galleons – An American Bridge from Asia to Europe /; Back Matter --; Survey of Primary Sources /; Conversion from Current to Constant Values /; Glossary of Fabrics, Garments, and Textiles /; Sources and Bibliography /
• ISBN: 9004383611; 9004369287
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jose L. Gasch-Tomas.

Studies of the trade between the Atlantic World and Asia during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries typically focus on the exchanges between Atlantic European countries – especially Portugal, the Netherlands and England – and Asia across the Cape route. In The Atlantic World and the Manila Galleons. Circulation, Market, and Consumption of Asian Goods in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1650 , José L. Gasch-Tomás offers a new approach to understanding the connections between the Atlantic World and Asia. By drawing attention to the trans-Pacific trade between the Americas and the Philippines, the re-exportation of Asian goods from New Spain to Castile, and the consumption of Chinese silk, Chinese porcelain and Japanese furnishings in New Spain and Seville, this book discloses how New Spanish cities and elites were main components of the spread of taste for Asian goods in the Spanish Empire. This book reveals how New Spanish family and commercial networks channelled the market formation of Asian goods in the Atlantic World around 1600.