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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. Chapters 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, and 13 of this book are
freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com
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. Chapters 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, and 13 of this book are
freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com
'Aristocracies', 'Old Regime colonial elites' - from Adam Smith to
Karl Marx and beyond, scholars have discussed their role in the
rise of the modern world, in economic development and capitalism.
Generally speaking and with the exception of the English landlords,
the verdict has been always negative. Furthermore, historians have
usually viewed the Ancien regime aristocracies and colonial elites
as social groups with entirely irrational or completely apathetic
attitudes towards the management of their estates. This book
constitutes the first attempt to analyse the question in a more
critical and historical way. It takes a directly comparative
approach, covering countries from Peru to Russia and from Naples to
England in the early modern period and up to the end of the 18th
century. The rationale of how these elites administered their
patrimonies, its political, social and sometime moral dimensions,
and the real effects of all this on economic development are
considered here as key aspects for a better understanding of
economic life. The result is a quite different picture in which
economic history is also seen as the outcome of human actions in
their own social and political context.
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.
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.
'Aristocracies', 'Old Regime colonial elites' - from Adam Smith to
Karl Marx and beyond, scholars have discussed their role in the
rise of the modern world, in economic development and capitalism.
Generally speaking and with the exception of the English landlords,
the verdict has been always negative. Furthermore, historians have
usually viewed the Ancien regime aristocracies and colonial elites
as social groups with entirely irrational or completely apathetic
attitudes towards the management of their estates. This book
constitutes the first attempt to analyse the question in a more
critical and historical way. It takes a directly comparative
approach, covering countries from Peru to Russia and from Naples to
England in the early modern period and up to the end of the 18th
century. The rationale of how these elites administered their
patrimonies, its political, social and sometime moral dimensions,
and the real effects of all this on economic development are
considered here as key aspects for a better understanding of
economic life. The result is a quite different picture in which
economic history is also seen as the outcome of human actions in
their own social and political context.
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