The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the birth of globalisation 1565-1815: Penguin Specials - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the birth of globalisation 1565-1815: Penguin Specials write by Peter Gordon. This book was released on 2017-01-09. The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the birth of globalisation 1565-1815: Penguin Specials available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Long before London and New York rose to international prominence, a trading route was discovered between Spanish America and China that ushered in a new era of globalisation. The Ruta de la Plata or ’Silver Way’ catalysed economic and cultural exchange, built the foundations for the first global currency and led to the rise of the first ‘world city’. And yet, for all its importance, the Silver Way is too often neglected in conventional narratives on the birth of globalisation. Gordon and Morales re-establish its fascinating role in economic and cultural history, with direct consequences for how we understand China today.
The Global History Manifesto
The Global History Manifesto - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Global History Manifesto write by Martin Lund. This book was released on 2024-07-23. The Global History Manifesto available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, in a sentence, claims that an ahistorical and ill informed doom and gloom atmosphere in Western public debate threatens to turn into a selffulfilling prophecy; that a new 'Global Optimism Literature' represented by e. g. Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker, based on vast historical sources and social scientific data fortunately intends to correct this misperception; that the also newly emerged sub-discipline of Global History in spite of severe birth diseases could contribute substantially to this mission; and when it all comes down to it: do we have a choice anyway?
America's Lost Chinese
America's Lost Chinese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America's Lost Chinese write by Hugo Wong. This book was released on 2023-07-27. America's Lost Chinese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the 1850s, as the United States pushed west, Chinese migrants met ordinary Americans for the first time. Alienation and xenophobia lost the US this chance for cultural and economic enrichment--but America gave the Chinese new perspectives and connections. They developed a dream of their own. As teenagers, Hugo Wong's great-grandfathers fled poverty in China for California. A decade later, they were excluded from the States. They helped establish a Chinese settlement across the border in Mexico, led by a world-famous dissident-in-exile with visions of a New China overseas. They would be among the Americas' first Chinese magnates, meeting with presidents, generals and missionaries, living through astonishing victories and humiliating defeats. The bitterest of all would be the colony's tragic demise amid a violent Mexican revolution, leading to the largest massacre and deportation of Chinese in American history. This epic 100-year drama follows the lives of the author's ancestors, via untouched personal papers. Though no Chinese group had ever gained such influence over a Western population and territory, their home in Mexico would long be forgotten. Today, this family story is reborn: one of nationhood, state racism and a turbulent century; of exile, grit and new ways of belonging.
Money in One Lesson
Money in One Lesson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Money in One Lesson write by Gavin Jackson. This book was released on 2022-01-20. Money in One Lesson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Superb' - Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up Money is essential to the economy and how we live our lives, yet is inherently worthless. We can use it to build a home or send us to space, and it can lead to the rise and fall of empires. Few innovations have had such a huge impact on the development of humanity, but money is a shared fiction; a story we believe in so long as others act as if it is true. Money is rarely out of the headlines – from the invention of cryptocurrencies to the problem of high inflation, extraordinary interventions by central banks and the power the West has over the worldwide banking system. In Money in One Lesson, Gavin Jackson answers the most important questions on what money is and how it shapes our world, drawing on vivid examples from throughout history to demystify and show how societies and its citizens, both past and present, are always entwined with matters of money. ‘A highly illuminating, well-researched and beautifully written book on one of humanity’s most important innovations’ – Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator, Financial Times
The Age of Trade
The Age of Trade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Trade write by Arturo Giraldez. This book was released on 2015-03-19. The Age of Trade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking book presents the first full history of the Manila galleons, which marked the true beginning of a global economy. Arturo Giraldez, the world’s leading scholar of the galleons, traces the rise of the maritime route, which began with the founding of the city of Manila in 1571 and ended in 1815 when the last galleon left the port of Acapulco in New Spain (Mexico) for the Philippines, establishing a permanent connection between the Spanish empire in America with Asian countries, most importantly China, the main supplier of commodities during that era. Throughout the two-and-a-half-century history of the Manila galleons, the strategic commodity fuelling global networks was always silver. Giraldez shows how this most important of precious metals shaped world history, with influences that stretch to the present.
