Offers a leading analysis of the expansion of the Iberian empire expansion and the impact of early globalization on the Peninsula. Offers a comparative perspective on the impact of globalization on institutional development, the political economy, and processes of state-building in Europe. Contests a prevalent, excessively-negative image of the Iberian empire, counterpoising the difficult relationship between empires and globalization and opening the debate for comparisons to other imperial formations.

La historia global y la historia trasnacional (con base en la historia entrelazada) están rompiendo los moldes de la historia nacional consolidada a medida que se afianzaban los estados nacionales. Sin rechazar la necesidad de comprender la formación de estos últimos, sino al contrario, esta perspectiva brinda una visión abierta e integrada de las sociedades actuales y su pasado. Este volumen recoge una serie de reflexiones que sirven para reinterpretar la historia de Europa, España y el imperio español en América. Se trata así de revisar algunos tópicos y de integrar política, economía y cultura para ofrecer una imagen más poliédrica de la articulación del imperio y de la monarquía de los Austrias, las relaciones entre lo global y lo local, la globalización y europeización de modelos de consumo o la formación de un espacio económico y cultural europeo y atlántico durante la época moderna.

The analysis of land management, lineage and family through the case study of early modern Spanish nobility from sixteenth to early nineteenth century is a major issue in recent historiography. It aims to shed light on how upper social classes arranged strategies to maintain their political and economic status. Rivalry and disputes between old factions and families were attached to the control and exercise of power. Blood, land management and honour were the main elements in these disputes. Honour, service to the Crown, participation in the conquest and "pure" blood (Catholic affiliation) were the main features of Spanish nobility. This book analyses the origins of the entailed-estate (mayorazgo) from medieval times to early modern period, as the main element that enables us to understand the socio-economic behaviour of these families over generations. This longue durée chronology within the Braudelian methodology of the research aims to show how strategies and family networks changed over time, demonstrating a micro-history study of daily life.

¿Cómo las monarquías e instituciones jesuitas y las variables económicas, sociales y culturales se combinaron para defender la frontera del imperio español?
Para alcanzar una respuesta, y comprender el ejercicio de la violencia en el Nordeste Rioplatense durante los siglos XVII y XVIII, este libro analiza las milicias guaraníes de las Reducciones Jesuíticas de Paraguay entre los siglos XVII y XVIII y sus movilizaciones a la frontera chaco-paraguaya, entendiéndolas en un marco global. A través de un análisis bidireccional ¿no sólo el universo de los españoles ¿dominantes¿ sino también el de los nativos¿ este estudio analiza, desde una perspectiva transnacional la agencia local de los guaraníes dentro de las redes globales del imperio español, demostrando que los efectos de la negociación política y social a nivel local fueron más complejos de lo que hasta ahora se ha planteado.

Following a study on the world flows of American products during early globalization, here the authors examine the reverse process. By analyzing the imperial political economy, the introduction, adaptation and rejection of new food products in America, as well as of other European, Asian and African goods, American Globalization, 1492¿1850, addresses the history of consumerism and material culture in the New World, while also considering the perspective of the history of ecological globalization.

This book shows how these changes triggered the formation of mixed imagined communities as well as of local and regional markets that gradually became part of a global economy. But it also highlights how these forces produced a multifaceted landscape full of contrasts and recognizes the plurality of the actors involved in cultural transfers, in which trade, persuasion and violence were entwined. The result is a model of the rise of consumerism that is very different from the ones normally used to understand the European cases, as well as a more nuanced vision of the effects of ecological imperialism, which was, moreover, the base for the development of unsustainable capitalism still present today in Latin America.

Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its emergence in Asia with the rapid development of the Chinese economy motivation to legitimate the current uniqueness of the history and economy of the nation. It contributes to the revitalization of the field of global history in Chinese historiography, which have been dominated by national narratives and promotes a debate to open new venues in which important features such as scholarly mobility, diversity and internationalization are firmly rooted, putting aside national specificities. Dealing with new approaches on the use of empirical data by framing the proper questions and hypotheses and connecting western and eastern sources, this text opens a new forum of discussion on how global history has penetrated in western and eastern historiographies, moving the pivotal axis of analysis from national perspectives to open new venues of global history.