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José Luis Gasch-Tomás , The Atlantic World and the Manila Galleons: Circulation, Market, and Consumption of Asian Goods in the Spanish Empire, 1565–1650, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2018, 275&#160;p.Editor: This book aims to articulate a contribution to, and revises, the  traditional understanding of the Atlantic World by emphasising the  historical connections between the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean, and  the importance of Spanish America in those connections. It explores the  degree to which the colonial Spanish American elite and cities were main  components of the economic and cultural encounter between the Spanish  Empire and East Asia in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,  and the reason why the Manila Galleon route was superseded by the Cape  route as the main venue of exchange between the Atlantic World and Asia  around the mid-seventeenth century. This book studies the historical  factors that fostered trade from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic World  in the late sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth  century. Among those factors, there were the commoditisation of, and  growing taste for, Asian goods in Spanish America, the strengthening  position of Mexican merchants in the Spanish Empire, and the  orientation of Manila’s economy toward international trade and strong  commitment of the Chinese economy to silver. The book also analyses how  growing international conflicts both in the Atlantic and the Pacific  oceans, and the delicate balance of powers within the Spanish Empire,  weakened the trans-Pacific trade and gave way to the rise of the Cape  route.The-Atlantic-World-and-the-Manila-GalleonsTélécharger