Opium after the Manila Galleon: The Spanish involvement in the opium economy in East Asia (1815-1830)

Permanyer-Ugartemendia, Ander

doi:10.1016/j.ihe.2014.07.001

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“…This led them to enter into partnerships with Spanish merchants, most of whom were of Basque origin. 91 Another example is tobacco. In 1781, Spanish authorities imposed a monopoly on marketing the product, with the aim of financing the colonial administration in the Philippines through local sales.…”

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Writing Spanish history in the global age: connections and entanglements in the nineteenth century

Luengo¹,

Dalmau²

2018

Journal of Global History

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Modern Spain has remained largely absent from the debates and narratives of global history. In sharp contrast to the early modern period, the case of Spain in the nineteenth century has been overwhelmingly studied from regional and national perspectives. Fortunately, valuable efforts to integrate this country into wider frames of analysis have emerged in the last decade. Building on these writings, this article will argue that connections and entanglements represent two valuable perspectives, which allow the insertion of the Spanish experience into contemporary narratives of global history. The article has two aims. First, it seeks to ‘decentre’ modern Spain, by moving beyond its territorial borders within the Iberian Peninsula, and by examining its global dimensions, through connections with territories, colonies, and nations on several continents. Second, it aims to reveal valuable insights for current debates on global history, which arise from a focus on a country that is usually considered to have been both marginal and peripheral.

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Writing Spanish history in the global age: connections and entanglements in the nineteenth century

Luengo¹,

Dalmau²

2018

Journal of Global History

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“…62 Iglesias Santos, 1994. 63 Kim y Davis, 2014;Permanyer, 2014;Prado-Fonts, 2015b;Martínez-Robles, 2016. gar su participación en el despliegue colonial en China. Más bien, apunta a formas de acción que se desarrollan fuera de lo que la historiografía ha reconocido y que permiten matizar algunas de las ideas existentes.…”

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“…8 Véase especialmente Elizalde, 2013; Fradera, 1999;Legarda, 1999. 9 Véase Cantalapiedra, 2015Martínez-Robles, 2016;Martínez-Robles, 2009;Martínez-Robles, 2006;Permanyer, 2014;Permanyer, 2012. 10 Véase Ai, 2014; Davis, 2015;Davis, 2014;Ginés, 2013;Ning 2016;Prado-Fonts, 2015a; Torres-Pou, 2013.…”

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Los “desheredados” de la empresa imperial: la implantación diplomática de España como potencia colonial periférica en China

Robles

2018

Hist. contemp.

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El tratado de Nanjing de 1842 entre la Gran Bretaña y el imperio Qing significó el inicio de las relaciones diplomáticas entre Europa y China. Pocos años después, también España contó con agentes consulares en los principales puertos chinos. El presente artículo analiza el despliegue diplomático español en China y sus objetivos y muestra que, a pesar de poseer un sistema consular aparentemente amplio, este no logró sus objetivos de desarrollar el comercio español en China y prestigiar a España en el contexto colonial chino, y que ello fue así principalmente por motivos que escapaban del control de los agentes diplomáticos. Asimismo, el artículo reflexiona sobre el papel que los países que pueden ser considerados periféricos dentro de la empresa imperial tuvieron en las peculiares formas de colonialismo que se desarrollaron en China a finales de siglo XIX y principios del XX.

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“…This was certainly the case with the Spanish trade in Asia and its Mexican extension. After 1815, but prior to consolidation of British commercial hegemony in the 1830s, Spanish initiative prospered as Hispanic-Anglo projects developed (Cheong 1979, 51-85;Permanyer-Ugartemendia 2014). As the India-China opium trade trade between British India and the archipelago had been developing since the seventeenth century, and the East India Company's interests in silver and produce from the archipelago were manifest (Quiason 1966).…”

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The Collapse of Mercantilism: Anglo-Hispanic Trans-Pacific Ventures in Asia at the End of the Spanish Empire (1815–30)

Permanyer-Ugartemendia

2023

JESB

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Early modern connections between the Pacific shores of the Spanish Empire have been assessed in previous studies and yet, studies on the subsequent developments during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are scant. This particularly applies to the consequences of the commercial developments at the end of the Manila Galleon and the collapse of the Spanish Empire in America. Through the analysis of the professional networks of Francisco Xavier de Ezpeleta, and Juan Nepomuceno Machado, which stretched from Asia to Mexico at the time, this paper proposes some preliminary conclusions about trans-Pacific links. It focuses on the study of networks and connections, and builds upon archival sources — mostly from the Jardine Matheson Archive, in Cambridge. In the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries, actors who made up Hispanic trading networks in what remained of the crumbling Spanish Empire, reorganised to benefit from opportunities as mercantilist limitations came to an end. In so doing, by the 1820s, Hispanic traders allied with the forebears of the British firm of Jardine, Matheson & Co., and controlled the resulting networks. This paper points to Hispanic trans-Pacific connections during the development of European private trade between East Asia and the Mexican Pacific. Ties between British and Hispanic merchants are key for the analysis of the opium trade and Western imperialism in East Asia, and the development of British commercial hegemony in Latin America in the nineteenth century.

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Opium after the Manila Galleon: The Spanish involvement in the opium economy in East Asia (1815-1830)

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Writing Spanish history in the global age: connections and entanglements in the nineteenth century

Writing Spanish history in the global age: connections and entanglements in the nineteenth century

Los “desheredados” de la empresa imperial: la implantación diplomática de España como potencia colonial periférica en China

The Collapse of Mercantilism: Anglo-Hispanic Trans-Pacific Ventures in Asia at the End of the Spanish Empire (1815–30)

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