Portuguese intervention in the Manila Galleon trade : the structure and networks of trade between Asia and America in the 16th and 17th centuries as revealed by Chinese ceramics and Spanish archives / Etsuko Miyata.
Publisher:
Archaeopress,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
iv, 94 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 30 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-75).
Summary:
In this study of the Portuguese intervention in the Manila Galleon Trade, Etsuko Miyata explores its history through a new approach: the examination of Chinese ceramics. The excavated Chinese ceramics from Mexico City shed light on the nature of Portuguese involvement in this huge sixteenth-century maritime trade network, and also help to clarify the relationship between the Portuguese and the Chinese merchants, who were considered to be rivals. The book analyzes the change of types and quantity of excavated Chinese ceramics from Mexico City over time. It references the trade depression during the mid seventeenth century, when the ceramic finds from Mexico City suddenly decreased, and the trade between Asia and America seemed to slow down; and it seeks to understand the effect on people from various social backgrounds in both regions -- Back Cover.
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