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The mercantile expeditions organized by Lima's commercial and political elite who traded with the Philippines and China during times of notable silver production in Potosí are studied from the last two decades of the sixteenth century until 1604. This analysis emphasizes the roles in this trade of the viceroys of New Spain, Perú, and the governors of the Philippine islands such as Francisco Tello de Guzmán. Case studies are undertaken of the networks built by Limenian neighbors Juan de Segura and Diego Núñez de Campoverde. This paper ends with an analysis of the merchandise coming from the East destined for Lima, Potosí, Sucre, and La Paz. Research for this article has been conducted in the General Archive of the Indies (Sevilla, Spain), the Peruvian General Archive, México City's General Notary Archive, and the Bolivia's Nationals Archive and Library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay analyzes one of the main elements of the economic relationship between China and colonial Latin America: the Chinese Silk Road. The road demonstrated a bipolarity of early globalization, and its impact across the Pacific enhanced the material culture of Hispanic American society from Mexico to Buenos Aires. The route of circulation was largely informal, due to prohibitions imposed by metropolitan Spain designed to guarantee the growth of European economic connections across the Atlantic Ocean. Quality variations and affordable prices made Chinese silks among the most valuable articles in Latin American markets before the nineteenth century, when British-Indian cotton emerged as the main textile of the global era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the trade of Hispanic American silver between 16th-19th century. Various topics discussed include globalization in 16th century, history of Mesoamerican civilization, transatlantic navigation in the U.S., leadership from Iberian monarchies, transformation of Latin America and monarchy in England.

This article analyzes the effects generated by the import and consumption of madeja silk from China in the commercial and productive level of Mexico and Spain between 1580 and 1620. The paper questions the traditional image of an Asian trade defined by expensive, manufactured goods, oriented to an elite consumption. Considering the Memorial of Horacio Levanto (1620) and in the context of modern globalization, we propose the hypothesis that Asian trade responded to mass consumption, influencing productive structures in New Spain and Spain herself. Madeja silk from China was one of the main semi-processed goods imported via Acapulco which, as raw material, promoted the development of the Novohispanic textile industry. El artículo analiza los efectos que generó la importación y consumo de la seda madeja de China en el plano comercial y productivo de México y España entre 1580 y 1620. Se cuestiona la imagen tradicional de un comercio asiático apoyado en bienes elaborados y caros, destinados al consumo de elite. Considerando el Memorial de Horacio Levanto (1620) y en el contexto de la globalización moderna, se fundamentará la idea de que el comercio asiático respondió a un consumo masivo, llegando a influir en la estructura productiva novohispana y peninsular. La seda madeja de China fue uno los principales bienes semielaborados importados a través de Acapulco que, por ser insumos, promovieron el desarrollo de la industria textil novohispana. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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This essay's main aim is to analyze the Spanish endeavors to encourage the institutionalization of the Spanish-Chinese axis through Cape Horn and the reasons that conspired against its achievement during much of the colonial period. This paper is organized in three sections. In the first one we deal with the plans that were found in Spain between the end of the 16th and mid 18th centuries, seeking to establish Cape Horn and South Americana ports as a staging post in commercial communications between Spain and the Philippines. The second one deals with the role non-Spanish Europeans played in this regard. Finally, we put forward what we believe to be the major reason to why the southern transcontinental cape cross as an institutional axis failed to be translated into a viable alternative by the Spanish monarchy until the last decades of the century XVIIII. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay is presented on the trade of Chinese textiles and porcelain in Argentina in the 18th century, with a focus on their commerce in the provinces of Tucumán and Buenos Aires. Topics discussed include a historical overview of the economic relations between China and the Spanish colonies in America, the ban on the entry of Chinese silk into those colonies to protect the market of Spanish textiles, and the adaptation of Chinese products to local preferences.