Silver, Globalization, and Capitalism

Capitalisms ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 35-70
Author(s):  
Dennis O. Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Global History ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
Trade Regimes

Generations of scholars have attempted, without success, to link Spanish-American silver to the dawn of European capitalism. Rather, historical connections across the globe have come into clearer focus during recent decades, including awareness of the fact that American, European, and Japanese silver gravitated largely to China (and also India). Having begun during the sixteenth century, globalization has involved deep connections, including trade regimes that linked together multiple free and coerced labour systems simultaneously. Lessons from global history suggest that national ‘capitalisms’ can no longer serve as reasonable units of analysis. From the outset of sixteenth-century origins, globalization generated intertwined economic, environmental, epidemiological, demographic, and cultural accumulations that continue to reverberate across planet Earth today. Wealth creation, wealth distribution, and environmental consequences remain central features of a historical process that requires analysis at a global level.

scholarly journals Latin America in Global History: An Historiographic Overview

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (60) ◽  
pp. 253-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Olstein
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
World History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Global History ◽  
The World ◽  
Last Ice Age ◽  
Great Divergence

Abstract World history can be arranged into three major regional divergences: the 'Greatest Divergence' starting at the end of the last Ice Age (ca. 15,000 years ago) and isolating the Old and the New Worlds from one another till 1500; the 'Great Divergence' bifurcating the paths of Europe and Afro-Asia since 1500; and the 'American Divergence' which divided the fortunes of New World societies from 1500 onwards. Accordingly, all world regions have confronted two divergences: one disassociating the fates of the Old and New Worlds, and the other within either the Old or the New World. Latin America is in the uneasy position that in both divergences it ended up on the 'losing side.' As a result, a contentious historiography of Latin America evolved from the very moment that it was incorporated into the wider world. Three basic attitudes toward the place of Latin America in global history have since emerged and developed: admiration for the major impact that the emergence on Latin America on the world scene imprinted on global history; hostility and disdain over Latin America since it entered the world scene; direct rejection of and head on confrontation in reaction the former. This paper examines each of these three attitudes in five periods: the 'long sixteenth century' (1492-1650); the 'age of crisis' (1650-1780); 'the long nineteenth century' (1780-1914); 'the short twentieth century' (1914-1991); and 'contemporary globalization' (1991 onwards).

Literary Conduits for ‘Consent’

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pankaj Kumar Jha
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
North India ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The North ◽  
Literary Cultures

The making of the imperial subjects is as much a matter of historical process as the emergence of the empire. In the case of the Mughal state, this process started much before its actual establishment in the sixteenth century. The fifteenth century in North India was a period of unusual cultural ferment. The emergence of the Mughal imperial formation in the next century was intimately related to the fast congealing tendency of the north Indian society towards greater disciplining of itself. This tendency is evident in the multilingual literary cultures and diverse knowledge formations of the long fifteenth century.

Notes on some discontents in the historical narrative

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Frédéric Schaub
Keyword(s):  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Global History ◽  
Cultural Transfers

The colonized Spanish American world has not yet played a part as a leading subject of global history. French historiography addresses a concept of ‘asymmetries’ on European writing on encounters and cultural transfers. European historians risk essentialist frameworks in their comparisons of societies. Analysis must address the longer and broader framework of conquered and colonized peoples.

Unfolding tensions within post-settlement governance and tribal economies in Aotearoa New Zealand

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Paul Mika ◽  
Graham Hingangaroa Smith ◽  
Annemarie Gillies ◽  
Fiona Wiremu
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Citizens ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Governance Models

Purpose This paper aims to examine indigenous governance and economies of iwi Maori (Maori tribes) in Aotearoa New Zealand. Research into persisting inequities amongst iwi that have settled treaty claims and the potential for intervention through new governance models and indigenous entrepreneurship contextualise the paper. Design/methodology/approach Kaupapa Maori (Maori philosophy) is used as an indigenous methodology to facilitate and empower transformative change, underpinned by Maori knowledge, language and culture. A multi-level approach is used to collect data from international, national and local tribal organisations. Validity is established through stakeholder engagement. Findings A central challenge in the post-treaty settlement context is exponentialising tribal capabilities because of the multiple purposes ascribed to post-settled iwi. Four themes, characterised as “unfolding tensions”, offer a critique and basis for solving tribal development challenges: how do tribes create culturally grounded global citizens; how do tribes rebalance wealth creation and wealth distribution; how do tribes recalibrate tribal institutions; and how do tribes embed entrepreneurship and innovation within their economies? Research limitations/implications As data collection is still underway, the paper is conceptual. Practical implications Five strategies to address unfolding tensions are identified for tribes to consider. Social implications Tribal governors and tribal members are implicated in the analysis, as well as the architects of post-treaty settlement governance models. Originality/value The paper contributes to theorising about tribal governance, economies and entrepreneurship.

scholarly journals GLOBAL GOODS, SILVER AND MARKET INTEGRATION: CONSUMPTION OF WINE, SILK AND PORCELAIN THROUGH THE GRILL COMPANY VIA MACAO-CANTON AND MARSEILLE-SEVILLE TRADE NODES, 18TH CENTURY

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Manuel Perez-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Global History ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
China And Japan

ABSTRACTNew global history studies have provided theoretical models related to different paths of economic growth and consumer behaviour between East Asia (mainly China and Japan) and Europe during the period of the first industrialisation. However, more research challenging the Eurocentric views of the origins of globalisation is needed. In this article, I examine the exchanges of Chinese silks and porcelains and European wines and liquors for American silver through the Swedish Grill Company. This company had extensive business activities in Canton and Macao establishing strategic links and intermediation with other relevant companies from China, Manila, Seville and Marseille. On the global level, such exchanges played a crucial role for the accumulation of American silver in China during the Qing dynasty, and the outflows of Chinese goods to the Americas and Europe fostered market integration and globalisation that occurred earlier than 1820.

Puritanism in Transatlantic Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-87
Author(s):  
Abram C. Van Engen ◽  
Evan Haefeli ◽  
Andrew Pettegree ◽  
Fred van Lieburg ◽  
David D. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global History ◽  
Indelible Mark ◽  
Transatlantic History ◽  
Oliver Cromwell ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American

Abstract David D. Hall’s book comprises a transatlantic history of the Puritan movement from its sixteenth-century emergence to its heyday under Oliver Cromwell and its subsequent political demise after 1660. Hall provides insights into the movement’s trajectory, including the various forms of Puritan belief and practice in England and Scotland and their transatlantic migration. In Hall’s sweeping view, Puritanism was a driving force for cultural change in the early modern Atlantic world and left an indelible mark on religion in America. The four reviewers praise Hall’s book for its monumental achievement, with Abram Van Engen emphasizing the centrality of Puritan theology. They place it within its historiographical context, as Evan Haefeli does by comparing it with Michael Winship’s Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America (2018) and as Fred van Lieburg does by reminding us of the centuries-old German tradition of Pietismusforschung. The reviewers also raise critical questions as to the audience of Puritan publications and point to the benefits of studying Puritanism in an even wider comparative framework, one that looks forwards and backwards in time and one that speaks to the large, overarching questions raised by global history and digital humanities, including Andrew Pettegree’s ustc project. In his response David Hall begins by acknowledging the decades of Anglo-American scholarship on the Puritan movement on which his book builds, replies to points raised by the reviewers, and reflects on the situation of Puritan studies in the United States at this moment in time.

Clovis and Constantine. The Uses of History in Sixteenth-Century Gallicanism

1990 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 584-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. M. Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Strong Case ◽  
The Past

A strong case has been made for the appearance of a new kind of history in late sixteenth-century France. Whether or not it deserves the label ‘historicist’, it has been credited with a desire to discover the objective face of the past, with a critical approach to sources, and even, though more rarely, with attempts to explain historical process. Prominent among the new brand of historians are Jean du Tillet, Charles du Moulin, Pierre and François Pithou, Claude Fauchet and Etienne Pasquier. All these men of the robe are also celebrated as defenders of the liberties of the Gallican Church. The Gallican tradition shared an attitude towards the past that was quite contrary to the new history. It did not accept change for its own sake, nor did it see change as improvement pointing towards the present.

Enrique Dupuy De Lôme and the Spanish American War

1979 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos García Barrón
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
Shed Light

WE know little in the United States about the man who, as Spain's Ambassador in 1898, dared to call President McKinley “a low politician catering to the rabble.” The purpose of this article is to shed light on Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, his views, and his hitherto unstudied role as Spain's envoy during the critical period leading up to the Spanish-American War.The first striking characteristic about our subject is his very name, being French instead of Spanish. The genealogy of the Dupuy de Lôme family originated in France in the sixteenth century. There is record of a Jean Dupuy fighting against the Turks in one of the Crusades. The Spanish branch had, up to the nineteenth century, used only the Dupuy part of the surname. Then, as evidence of his great admiration of his French uncle, the designer of France's first cruiser, Dupuy chose to reestablish the full French surname by adding the de Lôme.

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