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Beyond the Silk Road: The Silver Route and the Manila – Acapulco Galleons for the Global Circulation of Goods and People in China, Europe and the Americas

Fri, May 25, 4:00 to 5:30pm, TBA

Session Submission Type: Workshop

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Global historians compare and study different socioeconomic, politic and cultural areas of Asia, Europe and the Americas. One of their aims is to visualize the divergent paths followed by economic progress. The California School and the new generation of global historians has challenged the Eurocentric approach that had been common in the field for the analysis of modern economic growth in China and the West by refreshing the debate about The Great Divergence.

Currently the socio-economic and political strategies of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) government through the ‘One Belt, One Road’ 一带一路 (yī dài yī lù) strategy aims to foster and revitalize the uniqueness of Chinese culture and civilization. Such strategy is having an important influence in Chinese academic circles in which there is a revitalization of national narratives. On the contrary, this panel aims to deconstruct such nationalistic and Sinocentric historical view by analyzing the global implications of the old ‘Silk Route’, which did not only connect East Asia to Europe, but also Southeast Asia via Manila galleons which were loaded of American silver that were produced in New Spain for the exchange of Chinese commodities. Through the analysis of regional and global markets, we might observe the trans-national dimension of the ‘Silk Road’ beyond national and patriotic myopias.

A new generation of global historians are stressing the importance of the commercial connections stablished between Asia, America and Europe by pondering the role played by the commodities traded throughout the Pacific sea.

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