Author: Arturo Giráldez

This groundbreaking book presents the first full history of the Manila galleons, which marked the true beginning of a global economy. Arturo Girald...

This title was first published in 2002.In recent years scholars have begun to conceptualize the history of the Pacific Ocean as a subset of world h...

The literature on early-modern monetary history is vast and rich, yet overly Eurocentric. This book takes a global approach. It calls attention to...

World history conventionally ignores or underestimates the importance of Manila, the Manila galleons, and the Philippines as key stages in the deve...

Including 11 essays published over the last 15 years, this volume by Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez concerns the origins and early developmen...