La Nao de China, 1565-1815: Navegación, comercio e intercambios culturales

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304 pp., paperback, with texts and black & white photos.

The historical legacy of the Nao of China is polyphonic: first, its nautical contributions in general and discovery of routes and islands; secondly, its germinal contribution to the first globalization, putting in communication for more than two and a half centuries Acapulco with Manila – and, from both ports, hundreds of commercial routes that extended for thousands of land and sea miles in Asia and America to reach the main economic centers of Europe – and, finally, cross-cultural processes, exchanges ‘of all kinds and specific forms of cultural appropriation from hundreds of men and women, . luxury products and objects, printed matter and documents , dogmas and ideas that crossed the Pacific Ocean in both directions.