Overview
- Fills a gap in the literature on early modern trade, focusing on the capital market of Manila
- Utilises new archival material never before used in research on the history of Pacific trade
- Challenges Euro-centric perceptions of the development model of early modern long-distance trade
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is known about the Manila trade. This book offers the first reconstruction of the capital market of Manila using new archival sources that have never been used in the economic history of Pacific trade.
The book explains how trade between Asia and Spanish America across the Pacific, which lasted for 250 years (1571 – 1815) was financed from the city of Manila.The book analyses the political economy and institutional structures of the Manila capital market in the context of the global silver trade, as well as addressing key similarities and differences with European trade routes and differing approaches to colonialism and commerce in Asian waters. It traces how the Manila capital market emerged in a bottom-up process with a redistributive aspect that tied the interests of citizens with the fortunes of trade, using institutions familiar to the public like legacy funds, brotherhoods and lay religious orders to pool liquidity, originate working capital, and internalise the risk of loss at sea. It challenges the notion that there is a normative model for the development of capital markets and introduces an industrial organisation analysis to the broader structure of Early Modern trade in the Spanish Empire. Sitting at the intersection of economic and financial history, global history, imperial history and political economy, this book will be a cutting-edge and valuable resource for a broad range of scholars.
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About the author
Juan José Rivas Moreno is a historian of early modern finance, specialising in the financing of the Pacific trade. He obtained his PhD in Economic History from London School of Economics in 2023 with a thesis on the capital market of Manila which received the Coleman Prize 2024. Juan José was the recipient of a Newberry Library short-term fellowship and held an Economic History Society Fellowship in 2023-2024. Currently he is a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838
Book Subtitle: Institutions and Trade during the First Globalization
Authors: Juan José Rivas Moreno
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71810-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-71809-0Published: 20 October 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-71812-0Due: 03 November 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-71810-6Published: 19 October 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 296
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Financial History, Political Economy/Economic Systems, International Economics