Globalization in the Early Modern Era: New Evidence from the Dutch-Asiatic Trade, c. 1600–1800

Zwart, Pim de

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“…Invasion success on islands has been shown to be especially high given their ecology and eco-evolutionary history, which further explains high compositional similarity of the alien floras of these regions 10 . For the Dutch Empire, central regions in the Indo-Malay realm (especially, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Sumatra, Java & peninsular Malaysia) coincide strongly with trade activities by the Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC), which dominated the European trade with Asia from the mid-17 th century to the late 18 th century 55,56 . South Africa (as part of the former Cape Colony) was also an important region for the Dutch Empire, as it was one of the few regions where the Dutch established extensive settlements and it was an important stopover of the VOC between the Netherlands and Java 56 .…”

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Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism

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The redistribution of alien species across the globe accelerated with the start of European colonialism. European powers were responsible for the deliberate and accidental transportation, introduction, and establishment of alien species throughout their occupied territories and the metropolitan state. Here, we show that these activities left a lasting imprint on the global distribution of alien plants. Specifically, we investigated how four European empires (British, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch) structured current alien floras worldwide. We found that compositional similarity is higher than expected among regions that once were occupied by the same empire.Further, we provide strong evidence that floristic similarity between regions occupied by the same empire increases with the time a region was occupied. Network analysis suggests that historically more economically or strategically important regions have more similar alien floras across regions occupied by an empire. Overall, we find strong evidence that European colonial history is still detectable in alien floras worldwide.

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Section: Central Regions Within An Empire (H3)mentioning

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“…Based on data offered by Yuste (1995) for 61 textile items in 1778, our estimate of the factor of price increase (unweighted average) from Manila to Acapulco is 2.7. This figure is not especially high: « prices in Europe for many of these [Asian] products still over double those in Asia even in the late eighteenth century » (De Zwart 2016a, p. 50).…”

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AN EARLY CONSUMER REVOLUTION IN HISPANIC AMERICA? CONSUMPTION OF ASIAN GOODS BY THE COMMONERS IN 18^TH-CENTURY MEXICO

Dobado,

de Pinedo

2023

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Was there an early consumer revolution in Hispanic America? This article presents varied evidence supporting an affirmative answer to this question, especially regarding the case of New Spain. The inauguration of the Manilla Galleon trade route across the Pacific Ocean in 1565 was decisive in this respect. It made it possible that Asian goods (more or less finished silk and cotton textiles, porcelain, lacquerware, ivory religious images, furniture and spices, mainly) experienced an early diffusion throughout New Spain after arriving in Acapulco. This innovation in consumption patterns was adopted first by the elites, not much later, by the intermediate classes and, rather soon than not, by the commoners. Primary (i.e. Avalúos of the galleons' cargo) and secondary sources permit quantitatively exploring the possibilities of consumption of Asian goods by unprivileged segments of New Spain's population. We find that a non-negligible number of those goods were accessible to Mexico City labourers. Thus, it may be inferred that upper segments of society accessed it earlier and more easily. Therefore, New Spain should be included in any global narrative of the changes in consumption during the Early Modern Era.

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“…It seems as if the SEIC was crucial for creating the distinct Scottish taste for the more pricy Congo. In our analysis of the value added from the SEIC's Asia trade, we have used established English tea price series (Clark, 2006;de Zwart, 2016;Yong, 2007) that do not differentiate between tea qualities as a benchmark. If, as previous scholarship thus suggests, the tea traded by the SEIC on average was of a higher quality, we might therefore underestimate the value-added involved in the business of re-exporting the Asian teas.…”

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Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c. 1730–1800

Rönnbäck

Müller

2020

Scandinavian Economic History Review

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The narrative of the Swedish East India Company (SEIC) is a well-known part of Sweden's eighteenth century history. The company is known as a profitable venture, the only successful chartered company in Sweden, but with a limited impact upon the country's economic development. In this paper, we employ a value-chain analysis to estimate the Swedish East India trade's magnitude in terms of value-added. The results show that the success of the company was not based on monopolised domestic market in Sweden, a typical strategy of big chartered companies. The most valuable line of SEIC's business (Chinese teas) was rather based on re-exports to other countries in Europe. Our quantitative estimates also show that the Swedish East India trade eventually made up a non-negligible share, and in particular a major share of the transport and trade sectors, of the Swedish economy during a long part of the eighteenth century.

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Globalization in the Early Modern Era: New Evidence from the Dutch-Asiatic Trade, c. 1600–1800

Cited by 45 publications

References 40 publications

Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism

Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism

AN EARLY CONSUMER REVOLUTION IN HISPANIC AMERICA? CONSUMPTION OF ASIAN GOODS BY THE COMMONERS IN 18^TH-CENTURY MEXICO

Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c. 1730–1800

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Globalization in the Early Modern Era: New Evidence from the Dutch-Asiatic Trade, c. 1600–1800

Cited by 45 publications

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Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism

Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism

AN EARLY CONSUMER REVOLUTION IN HISPANIC AMERICA? CONSUMPTION OF ASIAN GOODS BY THE COMMONERS IN 18TH-CENTURY MEXICO

Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c. 1730–1800

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AN EARLY CONSUMER REVOLUTION IN HISPANIC AMERICA? CONSUMPTION OF ASIAN GOODS BY THE COMMONERS IN 18^TH-CENTURY MEXICO