Contrabandistas de seda y plata: puertos centroamericanos en las rutas transpacíficas (1585-1605)

Beyond being "the Limits of Empire" in the Audience of the Confines, the Kingdom of Guatemala played a key role in the transoceanic shipping routes that connected the various regions of the world during the colonial era. Especially important were the ports of Acajutla and El Realejo on the...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:cef1900ede244a8f8518aa590d5a1b872021-12-02T10:34:37ZContrabandistas de seda y plata: puertos centroamericanos en las rutas transpacíficas (1585-1605)1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.78278https://doaj.org/article/cef1900ede244a8f8518aa590d5a1b872019-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/78278https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252Beyond being "the Limits of Empire" in the Audience of the Confines, the Kingdom of Guatemala played a key role in the transoceanic shipping routes that connected the various regions of the world during the colonial era. Especially important were the ports of Acajutla and El Realejo on the Callao-Acapulco-Manila route. In this context, the royal prohibitions of voyages from Callao fostered an emerging smuggling trade in which the main goods were silver and silk. The original research presented here reveals Central American participation in the diversion of part of the silver intended in principle for Seville to China, where it reached a higher value than gold, and thus endangered the Atlantic economy.Rafael Obando AndradeCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticlesmugglingsilversilkCentral AmericaTrans-Pacific TradeGuatemalaAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2019)
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language EN
FR
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topic smuggling
silver
silk
Central America
Trans-Pacific Trade
Guatemala
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
spellingShingle smuggling
silver
silk
Central America
Trans-Pacific Trade
Guatemala
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Rafael Obando Andrade
Contrabandistas de seda y plata: puertos centroamericanos en las rutas transpacíficas (1585-1605)
description Beyond being "the Limits of Empire" in the Audience of the Confines, the Kingdom of Guatemala played a key role in the transoceanic shipping routes that connected the various regions of the world during the colonial era. Especially important were the ports of Acajutla and El Realejo on the Callao-Acapulco-Manila route. In this context, the royal prohibitions of voyages from Callao fostered an emerging smuggling trade in which the main goods were silver and silk. The original research presented here reveals Central American participation in the diversion of part of the silver intended in principle for Seville to China, where it reached a higher value than gold, and thus endangered the Atlantic economy.
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author Rafael Obando Andrade
author_facet Rafael Obando Andrade
author_sort Rafael Obando Andrade
title Contrabandistas de seda y plata: puertos centroamericanos en las rutas transpacíficas (1585-1605)
title_short Contrabandistas de seda y plata: puertos centroamericanos en las rutas transpacíficas (1585-1605)
title_full Contrabandistas de seda y plata: puertos centroamericanos en las rutas transpacíficas (1585-1605)
title_fullStr Contrabandistas de seda y plata: puertos centroamericanos en las rutas transpacíficas (1585-1605)
title_full_unstemmed Contrabandistas de seda y plata: puertos centroamericanos en las rutas transpacíficas (1585-1605)
title_sort contrabandistas de seda y plata: puertos centroamericanos en las rutas transpacíficas (1585-1605)
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2019
url https://doaj.org/article/cef1900ede244a8f8518aa590d5a1b87
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