Jesuits and Asian Goods in the Iberian Empires, 1580-1700

This bookanalyzes the exchange relations between the colonies of the IberianEmpires, starting from two cities ports, Buenos Aires and Macau in the period 1580-1700. Agents, who were not professional traders such as the members of the Society of Jesus,and the circulation and consumption of Asian goods in the local populations of Buenos Aires andMacau, were analyzed. Both cases of study will show us how these non-state agents- the Jesuits- build their ownnetworks and exchange channels to Chinese goods distribution (i.e silk, porcelain, musk, amberand others) between Asia and Latin American. This book intends to break with the local scheme of Jesuit studies in order to combine the localscale with analysis of inter-regional processes on a continental scale, from a comparativeperspective.