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

• Manuel Pérez-García ^[1]
  1. [1] Shanghai Jiao Tong University

     Shanghai Jiao Tong University

     China

     
• Localización: Revista de Historia Económica = Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, ISSN 0212-6109, Año nº 38, Nº 3, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Creating global demand during the Early Modern Era), págs. 449-484
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1017/S0212610919000235
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• Resumen
  • español

    Los estudios de la nueva historia global han presentado modelos teóricos relacionados con el crecimiento económico y patrones de consumo para Asia oriental (principalmente China y Japón) y Europa durante el período de la primera industrialización. Sin embargo, se necesitan más investigaciones que desafíen la marcada perspectiva eurocéntrica que ha prevalecido para estudiar los orígenes de la globalización. Este artículo muestra los intercambios de sedas y porcelanas chinas, así como vinos y licores europeos, por plata americana a través de la compañía sueca Grill. Esta compañía tenía una amplia gama de actividades comerciales en Cantón y Macao, estableciendo vínculos estratégicos e intermediación con otras compañías de China, Manila, Sevilla y Marsella. Dentro de una perspectiva global, estos intercambios desempeñaron un papel crucial para la acumulación de plata americana en China durante la dinastía Qing, y la consecuente exportación de bienes chinos hacia América y Europa, fomentando una integración de mercados y globalización que tuvo lugar antes de 1820.

  • English

    New 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.

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