RT Journal Article
T1 Global Goods, Silver and Market Integration: Consumption of Wine, Silk and Porcelain through the Grill Company via Macao-Canton and Marseille Trade Nodes, 18th century
K1 Global history
K1 Grill company
K1 Roux company
K1 Macao
K1 Marseille
K1 Intermediation
K1 Wine
K1 Silver
K1 Silk
K1 Proyecto GECEM
AB New global history studies have provided theoretical models related to different paths of economic growth and consumer behaviour between East Asia (mainly China and Japan) and Europe during the period of the first industrialisation. However, more research challenging the Eurocentric views of the origins of globalisation is needed. In this article, I examine the exchanges of Chinese silks and porcelains and European wines and liquors for American silver through the Swedish Grill Company. This company had extensive business activities in Canton and Macao establishing strategic links and intermediation with other relevant companies from China, Manila, Seville and Marseille. On the global level, such exchanges played a crucial role for the accumulation of American silver in China during the Qing dynasty, and the outflows of Chinese goods to the Americas and Europe fostered market integration and globalisation that occurred earlier than 1820.
PB Cambridge University Press
SN 0212-6109
YR 2020
FD 2020-12-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10433/9154
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10433/9154
LA en
NO Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 38, no. 3 (2020): 449-84
NO GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, Horizon 2020, project hosted at UPO
DS RIO
RD Apr 23, 2026