1. Systems of Global Trade
Caravans and Galleons
Tutor: Giorgio Riello
Week 11
Wednesday 13 January 2010
Systems of Global Trade

2. Assumptions from land to ocean and sea based
from a polycentric to a more centred system
- from a Eurasian to a global system

3. 1. The World System in the 13th Century
Janet Abu-Lughod, Before European hegemony: the world system A.D (1989).

5. 1. The World System in the 13th Century
Characteristics
commodities (produce and products) exchanged over long distances
the ‘archipelago of cities’
confined in terms of people and quantities involved
- but not smaller than the early modern world system

10. 2. Land Routes: The Silk Roads

11. 2. Land Routes: The Silk Roads

12. 2. Land Routes: The Silk Roads

13. 3. Land Routes: Trans-Saharan Trade

14. 3. Land Routes: Trans-Saharan Trade

15. 2. Land Routes: The ‘Coin Road’

16. 3. Seas and Oceans: The European Expansion
Portrait of the Fatih Sultan Mehmed II "The Conqueror“ by Giovanni Bellini

17. 3. Seas and Oceans: The European Expansion

24. 4. Integrating the Atlantic
Alfred Crosby and the Culumbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1972)
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe (1986)
- Germs, Seeds, and Animals: Studies in Ecological History (1994)

25. 4. Integrating the Atlantic
Methodological Developments
Slavery
The Atlantic as an area
David Hancock, ‘Commerce and conversation in the eighteenth-century Atlantic economy: the invention of the Madeira wine’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XXIX – 2 (1998), pp
3. Comparative (Indian and the Atlantic)

27. 5. The Indian Ocean Revisited

28. 6. Revising Our Assumptions
from land to ocean and sea based
from a polycentric to a more centred system
Wallestein’s World Systems (1974)
Gunder Frank’s ReOrient (1997)
- from a Eurasian to a global system

29. 7. Conclusion - Was the world more ‘globalised’ in 1800?
Is it correct to focus only on the role of commerce?
What was the impact on what was available and their visual, tactile and material characteristics?