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The Age of Trade: The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy (Exploring World History)

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This groundbreaking book presents the first full history of the Manila galleons, which marked the actual beginning of a global economy. Arturo Giraldez, the world’s leading scholar of the galleons, traces the upward thrust of the maritime route, which started with the founding of the city of Manila in 1571 and ended in 1815 when the last galleon left the port of Acapulco in New Spain (Mexico) for the Philippines, establishing a permanent connection between the Spanish empire in The united states with Asian countries, most importantly China, the primary supplier of commodities throughout that era. All over the two-and-a-half-century history of the Manila galleons, the strategic commodity fuelling global networks used to be at all times silver. Giraldez shows how this most necessary of precious metals shaped world history, with influences that stretch to the present.

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