{"title":"Producing Gold and Silver to Globalize the Economy during the Early Modern Era: San Luis Potosi and the Pacific Trade with Asia","authors":"Sergio Tonatiuh Serrano Hernández","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340104","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article presents evidence from archival sources that allows us to reconstruct the commercial networks that permitted the continuous flow of silver and gold from northern New Spain to Asia during the early modern era. These networks obtained various consumer goods – fabrics, spices, porcelain – that were then introduced into Spanish American markets. The narrative follows the bullion through its journey from the production center in San Luis Potosi to the Pacific and Asia. This vantage point contributes to the construction of a polycentric view within the framework of global history by assessing the role played by the American and Asiatic possessions of the Hispanic Empire in the first globalization. Using a methodological framework provided by social network analysis, the article presents a study of two commercial networks based in New Spain and extending to the Philippines and Peru. The essay underlines the role merchants played in mobilizing precious metals to accelerate exchanges and generate extraordinary profit margins.</p>","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fruit of the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat, written by Robert N. Spengler","authors":"Rick Warner","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":"1 1","pages":"111-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138515013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Lumpenproletariat and the Itinerary of a Concept: Some Literary Reflections","authors":"Anupama Mohan","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340094","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In their theory of class formation and social revolution, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were scathing about the lumpenproletariat, condemning it as anti-revolutionary, morally bankrupt, and a bribable tool of the bourgeoisie, a view that remained influential well into the mid-twentieth century. Not until Frantz Fanon appropriated the term lumpenproletariat in The Wretched of the Earth (1961) and applied it to what he saw as a whole class of people waiting to be brought into and redeployed as the vanguard of a new revolutionary proletarian consciousness did it shed its negative connotations. The changed trajectories of the proper place and role of the lumpenproletariat can be seen in working-class literatures of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, which constitute an important stage upon which to refine Marxian and Fanonian understandings of the lumpenproletariat. This essay examines three novels written in the last thirty years: Herbert, by Nabarun Bhattacharya, written originally in Bengali and published in 1993; How Late It Was, How Late, by Scottish writer James Kelman (1994); and Sacred Games, by Vikram Chandra (2006). Read contrapuntally, these works provide a literary platform for the exploration of the representational shift in the role and function of the lumpenproletariat in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44343366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"History of Bangladesh: Early Bengal in Regional Perspectives (up to c. 1200 CE). Vol. 1, Archaeology, Political History, Polity. Vol. 2, Society, Economy, Culture, edited by Abdul Momin Chowdhury and Ranabir Chakravarti","authors":"Rila Mukherjee","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340097","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44151314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ghost of Namamugi: Charles Lenox Richardson and the Anglo-Satsuma War, written by Robert S. G. Fletcher","authors":"A. Goto","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48433923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a Global History of Young Israel","authors":"Oded Heilbronner","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340095","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article argues that the first two decades of Israeli state-building can be compared structurally to some main processes in postwar Western-European societies, and that this approach productively situates Israel within a global perspective, uncovering new relationships between the local and the global. In addition, it proposes a methodological reading of the young Israeli society before the Six-Day War and a theoretical framework in which to place it. It provides an analysis of this young society from the perspective of Western history, constituting a new reference point that does not strive to negate other common approaches. If, until now, the history of the first two decades of Israel has been examined from a local and particular point of view – whether the state-building process or political, social, and national controversies – I propose to view the Israel of the 1950s–1960s as a postwar society that underwent the same structural processes as other Western European societies during those years, despite domestic differences.","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43304383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Confucianism for the Contemporary World: Global Order, Political Plurality, and Social Action, edited by Tze-ki Ton and Kristin Stapleton","authors":"Shaojin Chai","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340099","url":null,"abstract":"In the meantime, they point out the limits of the impact of Confucianism at home and abroad and suggest that there is more work to be done to restore Confucianism in China. Whether this claim regarding Confucianism and current pandemic control is empirically valid is subject to debate, but it is fascinating to observe the persistent interest in Confucianism and its revival in the twenty-first century. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Asian Review of World Histories is the property of Brill Academic Publishers and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46878011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks across India and Southeast Asia, written by Himanshu Prabha Ray","authors":"Veronica Walker Vadillo","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42265875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Isabella Bird and Japan: A Reassessment, written by Kiyonori Kanasaka and translated by Nicholas Pertwee Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Revisiting Isabella Bird. New Abridged Edition with Notes and Commentaries, written by Kiyonori Kanasaka and translated by Nicholas Pertwee","authors":"Shigeru Akita","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45602680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contesting the Colonizer or Hopeless Submission? Colonialism, Indigeneity, and Environmental Thinking in India, 1857–1910","authors":"Vijaya Ramadas Mandala","doi":"10.1163/22879811-12340093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340093","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article examines in detail how the forms of national or indigenous consciousness emerged in the sphere of Indian political ecology between 1857 and 1910. The subjects of “ecological indigeneity” and “dispossession” formed as defining characteristics in the articulation of this ecopolitical thinking. The scholarship to date has produced voluminous writings on the political, economic, and social dimension of the histories of colonial unrest, but it has not adequately addressed the issue of how the subtext of environmentalism greatly mattered in shaping some of the resistance movements. Focusing on the period between the 1857 revolt and 1910, this study evaluates three groups – (1) the 1857 Indian rebels and the Gonds; (2) the ādivāsī tribes of Bastar in 1910; and (3) the early Indian Congress Nationalists in the 1880s – to elucidate the emergence of environmentalism and indigenous dispossession in colonial India, which became foundational in critiquing British interventionist policies.","PeriodicalId":41200,"journal":{"name":"Asian Review of World Histories","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48663438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}