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Portuguese Merchants in the Manila Galleon System - 1565-1600 (Hardcover)
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Portuguese Merchants in the Manila Galleon System - 1565-1600 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Maritime History of Asia
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Villamar examines the role of Portuguese merchants in the formation
of the Manila Galleon as a system of trade founded at the end of
the sixteenth century. The rise of Manila as a crucial
transshipment port was not a spontaneous incident. Instead, it came
about through a complex combination of circumstances and
interconnections that nurtured the establishment of the Manila
Galleon system, a trading mechanism that lasted two and half
centuries from 1565 until 1815. Villamar analyses the establishment
of the regulatory framework of the trade across the Pacific Ocean
as a whole setting that provided legality to the transactions,
predictability to the transportation and security to the
stakeholders. He looks both at the Spanish crown strategy in Asia,
and the emergence of a network of Portuguese merchants located in
Manila and active in the long-distance trade. This informal
community of merchants participated from the inception of the
trading system across the Pacific, with connections between Europe,
ports in Asia under the control of Portugal, the Spanish colonies
in America, and the city of Manila. From its inception, the
newly-founded capital of the Philippines became a hub of
connections, attracting part of the trade that already existed in
Asia. Surveying the Portuguese commercial networks from the 'Estado
da India' across the 'Spanish lake,' this book sheds light on the
early modern globalization from a truly comprehensive Iberian
perspective. This is a valuable resource for scholars of Pacific
and Iberian trade history and the maritime history of Asia.
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