The increasing openness of economies and the phenomenon of globalization has led to know-how and innovation becoming …

Globalization. By this term, the notion that a process of genuine globalization took place in the Early Modern Era is defended. The … authors propose that the canonical globalization—that of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—was preceded by a … the Early Globalization, like market integration, price co-movements and international silver circulation, were very …

1 Introduction -- 2 Early Globalization: Arguments and Evidence -- 3 Harbingers of Modernity: an Iberian perspective … -- 4 Silver production, prices and globalization in the eighteenth century -- 5 The Austrian mining industry and the … Iberian globalization -- 6 The Manila Galleon and the Age of Trade -- 7 The reception of Asian textiles in Portugal and Brazil …