%0 Journal Article %A Yun Casalilla, Bartolomé %T Social Networks and the Circulation of Technology and Knowledge in the Global Spanish Empire %D 2018 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10433/5130 %X This chapter aims at drawing attention to the role of the SpanishEmpire in the circulation of technology and technological knowledgeduring this epoch. It focuses on the role of informal institutions andsocial networks regulating such circulation and examines the relationshipbetween political power and the control of technological knowledge, aswell as the often-simplified interplay between globalization and empire. %K Social Network %K Technolgy %K Spanish Empire %K Early Modern World %K Knowledge %K Proyecto GECEM %~