Producing Gold and Silver to Globalize the Economy during the Early Modern Era: San Luis Potosi and the Pacific Trade with Asia

2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-96
Author(s):  
Sergio Tonatiuh Serrano Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
New Spain ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
San Luis ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
San Luis Potosi ◽  
Commercial Networks ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
San Luis Potosí

Abstract This article presents evidence from archival sources that allows us to reconstruct the commercial networks that permitted the continuous flow of silver and gold from northern New Spain to Asia during the early modern era. These networks obtained various consumer goods – fabrics, spices, porcelain – that were then introduced into Spanish American markets. The narrative follows the bullion through its journey from the production center in San Luis Potosi to the Pacific and Asia. This vantage point contributes to the construction of a polycentric view within the framework of global history by assessing the role played by the American and Asiatic possessions of the Hispanic Empire in the first globalization. Using a methodological framework provided by social network analysis, the article presents a study of two commercial networks based in New Spain and extending to the Philippines and Peru. The essay underlines the role merchants played in mobilizing precious metals to accelerate exchanges and generate extraordinary profit margins.

scholarly journals La globalización hispana del comercio y el arte en la Edad Moderna

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Dobado González
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Main Protagonist ◽  
Modern Era

This article shows some important aspects of a worldwide, historical phenomenon: the globalization of commerce and art which started in the second half of the sixteenth century and had the American, Asian and European territories of the Hispanic Monarchy as main protagonist during the Early Modern Era. The international exchanges -basically, American silver in return for more or less luxurious goods from Asia- that followed the discovery by Urdaneta, in 1565, of the “tornaviaje” between Manila and Acapulco had a profound influence on the forms of production and consumption in both the Old World and the New. Spanish economists and economic historians have probably underscored the historical significance of these unprecedented interactions. The central role played by the Viceroyalty of New Spain in this globalization has perhaps not been properly valued either.

The Ottoman Caliphate and Muslims of the Philippine Archipelago during the Early Modern Era

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Donoso
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Especial Reference ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era

This chapter examines the Ottoman role in politics in the Philippines with especial reference to the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, when much of the Philippine Archipelago came under Spanish control. Spanish documents analysed here suggest that colonial policy-makers were profoundly concerned about potential Ottoman influence over the Muslim sultanates of the Philippines—Sulu and Maguindanao. The Spanish archival and literary sources also contain records of attempts by the Philippine sultanates to contact the Ottoman Caliph in Istanbul, not merely to counter the Spanish threat but also to intervene in internal disputes. These efforts never seem to have met with success. Eventually, instead of gaining Ottoman protection, and despite adopting Caliphal titles, at the end of the nineteenth century the Philippine sultanates were forced to accept Spanish suzerainty.

Converting the Pacific

2019 ◽  
pp. 788-816
Author(s):  
Brandon Bayne
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
New Spain ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Strong Ties ◽  
Competition And Cooperation ◽  
Modern Enterprise ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Religious Devotion

As an early modern enterprise, the Society of Jesus established networks that relayed information from far-flung missionaries back to superiors in metropolitan centers. At the same time, Jesuits linked to colleagues serving in other locales by sharing letters, maps, and devotional objects that helped forge a worldwide, imagined community. Through these informal means, Jesuits in New Spain developed particularly strong ties to Asia as the colonization of the Philippines and establishment of the Manila Galleons turned their viceroyalty into a transpacific contact zone. Beginning with a sixteenth-century debate over forceful conversion, this chapter traces confrontations and comparisons engendered by this communication. It tracks religious devotion to Japanese martyrs in the Americas to better understand the function of hagiography in colonial contexts. Martyrs also factored into transpacific competition and cooperation, leading Jesuits in Mexico, China, and Spain to connect their personal sacrifices to the larger effort to convert the Pacific.

Percepciones y experiencias de usuarias sobre las limitaciones sanitarias para la promoción de lactancia materna

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-313
Author(s):  
Yesica Yolanda Rangel-Flores ◽  
Ulises Martínez Plascencia ◽  
Ma. Estela Rodriguez Martínez
Keyword(s):  
San Luis ◽  
San Luis Potosi ◽  
Investigación Cualitativa ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
San Luis Potosí

Objetivo Comprender las percepciones y experiencias que usuarias de distintos servicios de salud han desarrollado respecto a las limitaciones sanitarias para la promoción de la Lactancia Materna.Metodología Investigación cualitativa con enfoque fenomenológico. Se aplicaron entrevistas en profundidad a 12 madres que habitan en una comunidad clasificada con alto nivel de marginación en San Luis Potosí, México, cuyos partos fueron atendidos en servicios de salud públicos, privados y de seguridad social. Se realizó análisis fenomenológico sobre las entrevistas trascritas en totalidad.Resultados Con independencia del tipo de atención sanitaria, las mujeres reciben poca capacitación para la lactancia durante la etapa prenatal y la mayor parte de esta ocurre de manera impersonal. La mayoría narra experiencias de exigencia y juzgamiento, más que de consejería, por parte del personal de salud.Conclusión La lactancia materna es contemplada como derivada de una decisión personal e individual, en la que no impacta la consejería del personal sanitario. Es necesario impulsar procesos de capacitación y sensibilización dirigidos a fortalecer las habilidades de acompañamiento para la Lactancia Materna en el personal de salud, con el fin de ejercer la función de consejería de manera asertiva.

Philosophic Pride

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Brooke
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Marcus Aurelius ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era

This is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the book considers how political writers of the period engaged with the ideas of the Roman and Greek Stoics that they found in works by Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. The book examines key texts in their historical context, paying special attention to the history of classical scholarship and the historiography of philosophy. The book delves into the persisting tension between Stoicism and the tradition of Augustinian anti-Stoic criticism, which held Stoicism to be a philosophy for the proud who denied their fallen condition. Concentrating on arguments in moral psychology surrounding the foundations of human sociability and self-love, the book details how the engagement with Roman Stoicism shaped early modern political philosophy and offers significant new interpretations of Lipsius and Rousseau together with fresh perspectives on the political thought of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes. The book shows how the legacy of the Stoics played a vital role in European intellectual life in the early modern era.

Nuevo registro de Martín pescador enano en Tamaulipas, México

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor Arturo Garza-Torres ◽  
José Cornelio López Medina ◽  
Glenda Nelly Requena Lara
Keyword(s):  
San Luis ◽  
San Luis Potosi ◽  
San Luis Potosí

El reporte de nuevos registros de distribución de especies incrementa el conocimiento biológico de la especie y del sitio donde se registra. Reportamos la presencia por primera vez del Martín pescador enano (Chloroceryle aenea) en Tamaulipas, dentro del Área Natural Protegida Laguna La Vega Escondida, en el paraje Casa de la Naturaleza. Aunque esta especie tiene amplia distribución desde el sur de México hasta el noreste de Argentina, este registro representa el encuentro más norteño para la especie en un ambiente acuático asociado al sistema lagunar del Tamesí, Tamaulipas, y amplía su distribución por más de 135 km de los registros de San Luis Potosí y a más de 160 km de los de Tuxpan, Veracruz.

Primer registro para San Luis Potosí y nuevos registros para Jalisco de mycocepurus smithii (forel, 1893) (hymenoptera: formicidae)

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Vasquez-Bolaños
Keyword(s):  
New Record ◽  
First Record ◽  
The State ◽  
San Luis ◽  
San Luis Potosi ◽  
San Luis Potosí

First record of the fungus-wronging ant Mycocepurus smithii for the state of San Luis Potosí and new record locality for Jalisco state, amplying north limit for this species.

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