Call for papers for the dossier: “Connecting both Indies: rethinking archaic globalisation and global history from a Pacific perspective: actors, spaces, and exchanges”.
Coordinators:
M.A. Juan Carlos Gonzalez Balderas
KU Leuven, Belgium
carlos.gonzalezbalderas@kuleuven.be
Dr. Marina Torres Trimallez
KU Leuven, Belgium
marina.torrestrimallez@kuleuven.be
Background
The Manila Galleon route connected Asia and the Americas from the late 16th to the early 19th century. This commercial route triggered cultural, biological, technological, animal, and human exchanges, which impacted all three continents. As a result, merchants, monks, pirates, seamen, soldiers, postmen and bureaucrats contributed to building global connections, both legal and illegal, throughout the Pacific Ocean. Thus, Spanish America, mainly Mexico City, became a world metropolis where Asian, American, European, and African commodities converged. Although historiography has analysed which products and knowledge were circulating at the time, this dossier aims to shed light on new micro and macro histories that can provide further outcomes around the global circulation between these two continents. Likewise, this issue seeks to explore in more depth the strategies in which different actors interacted in this American space beyond the usual regulatory role in trade assigned to them. Therefore, scholars whose projects relate to this theme are kindly invited to submit their contributions under the following topics:
- Exchange of ideas, technology, plants, and products from Southeast Asia to the Americas and vice versa (16th to 18th centuries).
- Circulation of people across the Pacific (16th to 18th centuries).
- Smuggling networks across the Pacific (16th to 18th centuries).
- America: the epicentre of early globalisation.
- Luso-Philippine and Hispano-Philippine art in the Americas: consumption, devotion and collecting.
- Microhistories of flora transplantation between the two continents.
Articles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese are welcome.
Deadline: March 22, 2024
Publication date: July 1st, 2024