American Globalization, 1492–1850

Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla is Full Professor at Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain. Ilaria Berti teaches history of the Americas at Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy. Omar Svriz-Wucherer is Postdoctoral Researcher at Project GECEM (ERC-StG.- 679371) and teaches Early Modern History at Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain.

Introduction Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla Part I: The Political Economy of the Spanish Empire and the introduction of Eurasian Goods in the New World 1. Trans-Imperial, Transnational and Decentralized: The Traffic of African Slaves to Spanish America and Across the Isthmus of Panama, 1508–1651 Alejandro García-Montón 2. "The Reader’s Information" and "Norte de la Contratación". The Translation and Circulation of Commercial Information Between Seville and London Around 1700 José Manuel Díaz Blanco 3. European Imperialism, War, Strategic Commodities, and Ecological Limits: The Diffusion of Hemp in Spanish South America and Its Ghost Fibers Manuel Díaz-Ordóñez 4. Spanish Women as Agents for a New Material Culture in Colonial Spanish America Amelia Almorza Hidalgo Part II: Food and Empire 5. The Introduction of Poultry Farming to the Indigenous People of the New Kingdom of Granada, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Gregorio Saldarriaga 6. Gifts, Imitation, Violence and Social Change: The Introduction of European Products in the First Decades of the American Conquest Luis Miguel Córdoba Ochoa 7. Rice Revisited from Colonial Panama: Its Cultivation and Exportation Bethany Aram and Manuel Enrique García-Falcón 8. In the Kitchen: Slave Agency and African Cuisine in the West Indies Ilaria Berti 9. Food, Colonialism and the Quantum of Happiness Rebecca Earle Part III: America and the Eurasian Products in a Global Perspective 10. Elites, Women and Chinese Porcelain in New Spain and in Andalusia, circa 1600: A Global History José L. Gasch-Tomás 11. "That in the Reducciones Had Been Noise of Weapons...": The Introduction of Firearms in the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Missions of Paraguay Omar Svriz-Wucherer 12. Transatlantic Markets and the Consumption of Sevillian Art in the Viceroyalty of Peru: The Portobello Fairs in Tierra Firme (Seventeenth Century) Fernando Quiles Afterthoughts 13. From Goods to Commodities in Spanish America: Structural Changes and Ecological Globalization from the Perspective of the European History of Consumption Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla