Transpacific Peru, 1570-1613

Connections with Mexico, the Philippines, and China

Mariano Bonialian (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-73957-4 (ISBN)

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Transpacific Peru explores how silver-rich Peruvian merchants defied royal laws to trade Asian goods across Mexico, the Philippines, and China. It uncovers the structural forces behind their expansion and highlights their agency in an early globalized economy.

Classic studies have highlighted the significance of colonial Peru from a transatlantic and European perspective. Transpacific Peru, 1570-1613 expands this view by exploring its pivotal role in transpacific trade. It examines the agency and networks of peruleros—silver-rich merchants—connecting China, the Philippines, and Mexico. The book exposes the tensions between their expeditions and the prohibitive laws of the Spanish Crown, revealing colonial Peru as a dynamic hub for the expansion of the Spanish Empire and the early globalization of the 16th century.

Mariano Bonialian, Ph.D. (2010), Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de México, is a researcher at CONICET (Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council). He has published books and articles, including La América española: entre el Pacífico y el Atlántico. Globalización mercantil y economía política 1580-1840 (COLMEX, 2019).

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“Let the jijenes Get Out; the sancudos Are Coming”

1 The Transpacific Universe: More than a Galleon

1 Ships and Expeditions

2 Peru and the Transpacific Trade

3 From the Public to the Private

2 Transpacific Peruvian Agency and the Splendor of Potosí

1 Agency and Networks

2 The Peruleros: Global Actors and Collective

3 Networks and the Law: Local Legitimacy versus Royal Legislation

4 The Cerro Rico de Potosí Boom

5 Silk, Ivory, and Tortoise Shell Combs: Asian Objects in Peru

3 Expeditions between Peru and China 1580–1591

1 Precedent. The Realejo Shipyard and the Dream of Reaching China

2 The Initiative. Letter from Gonzalo Ronquillo to Viceroy Francisco de Toledo and the Ship Nuestra Señora de la Cinta

3 Juan de Solís’ Peruvian Ship Headed to Canton and Japan

4 Rodrigo de Córdoba and Viceroy Cañete’s Ship

5 Nuestra Señora del Rosario to China and the East Indies

4 Peruvian Networks in Acapulco, Mexico, and the Philippines, 1586 and 1613

1 Viceroys’ Testimonies and Agency

2 Álvaro de Castrillo, Royal Notary, and the Acapulco Port Records

3 Francisco Tello de Guzmán, Governor of the Philippines

4 Peruleros, the Potosinean Silver and the Philippines pancada

5 Tomé Ruiz, from Notary Public to Merchant

6 Merchants of Peru

7 Agustín de San Pedro y Aguilar

8 Juan de Segura Soltero

9 Diego Núñez de Campoverde

10 Francisco de Mansilla Marroquí, Depositary of Lima

11 Gerónimo Justo de Porras

12 Bernardo Venegas de Vergara

5 Spanish-American Crossings through Europe-Asia: an Enigma

1 Peru: an Aspirational Self-Sufficient Market

2 New Spanish Expeditions vs the Portuguese in Asia

Epilogue: the Dutch and the Transpacific Geopolitical Map at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century

Documentary Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes ; 10
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	561 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-73957-2 / 9004739572
ISBN-13	978-90-04-73957-4 / 9789004739574
Zustand	Neuware