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Big Data and “New” Global History: Global Goods and Trade Networks in Early Modern China and Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2021

Manuel Perez-Garcia ,
Li Wang ,
Omar Svriz-Wucherer ,
Nadia Fernández-de-Pinedo  and
Manuel Diaz-Ordoñez
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Abstract

This paper introduces an innovative method applied to global (economic) history using the tools of digital humanities through the design and development of the GECEM Project Database (www.gecem.eu; www.gecemdatabase.eu). This novel database goes beyond the static Excel files frequently used by conventional scholarship in early modern history studies to mine new historical data through a bottom-up process and analyse the global circulation of goods, consumer behaviour, and trade networks in early modern China and Europe. Macau and Marseille, as strategic entrepôts for the redistribution of goods, serve as the main case study. This research is framed within a polycentric approach to analyse the connectivity of south Chinese and European markets with trade zones of Spain, France, South America, and the Pacific.

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global historydigital humanitiesconsumptiontrade networksChina
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Itinerario , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , April 2022 , pp. 14 - 39
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AGI = Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain.Google Scholar
AHM = Arquivo Histórico de Macau, Macau.Google Scholar
AHPM = Archivo Histórico Provincial de Murcia, Spain.Google Scholar
AHU/ CU / BB = Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino / Conselho Ultramarino /Brasil- Bahía, Lisbon, Portugal.Google Scholar
BAL = Biblioteca de Ajuda de Lisboa, Portugal.Google Scholar
FHAC = First Historical Archives of China, Beijing, China.Google Scholar
RUCL = Renmin University of China Library, Beijing, China.Google Scholar
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Manning, Patrick. Big Data in History. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mostern, Ruth. “Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern”: The Spatial Organization of the Song State. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
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Panzac, Daniel. La caravane maritime. Marins européens et marchands ottomans en Méditerranée (1680–1830). París: CNRS, 2004.Google Scholar
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Perez-Garcia, Manuel. “Creating Global Demand: Polycentric Approaches, Crossroads of Silk and Silver in China and Iberian Empires during the Early Modern Era.” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 38:3 (2020): 405–19.Google Scholar
Perez-Garcia, Manuel. “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.” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 38:3 (2020): 449–84.Google Scholar
Perez-Garcia, Manuel. Global History with Chinese Characteristics. Autocratic States along the Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires 1680–1796. Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.Google Scholar
Perez-Garcia, Manuel, and de Sousa, Lucio. Global History and New Polycentric Approaches. Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Puschmann, Cornelius, Bastos, Marco, and Larivière, Vincent. “How Digital Are the Digital Humanities? An Analysis of Two Scholarly Blogging Platforms.” PLOS ONE 10:2 (2015).Google ScholarPubMed
Reinert, Sophus A., and Fredona, Robert. “Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism.” Harvard Business School Working Paper 18–021. Harvard Business School, 2017: 1–38. https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/hbswpaper/18-021.htm.Google Scholar
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Riello, Giorgio, and Roy, Tirthankar. “Introduction: Global Economic History, 1500–2000.” In Global Economic History, edited by Riello, Giorgio and Roy, Tirthankar, 1–15. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.Google Scholar
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Subrahmanyam, S. “Holding the World in Balance: The Connected Histories of the Iberian Overseas Empires, 1500–1640.” American Historical Review 112: 5 (2007): 1359–85.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Svriz-Wucherer, Omar. Resistencia y Negociación. Milicias Guaraníes, Jesuitas y Cambios Socioeconómicos en la Frontera del Imperio Global Hispánico: ss. XVII-XVIII. Rosario: Prohistoria Ediciones, 2019.Google Scholar
Teixeira, Manuel. Macau no séc. XVIII. Macau: Imprensa Nacional de Macau, 1984.Google Scholar
Terras, Melissa, Nyhan, Julianne, and Vanhoutte, Edward. Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader. London: Routledge, 2013.Google Scholar
Trivellato, Francesca. The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Van Doosselaere, Quentin. Commercial Agreements and Social Dynamics in Medieval Genoa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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