Arms, Guano, and Shipping: The W. R. Grace Interests in Peru, 1865–1885

1985 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Alexander G. de Secada
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Rail Transport ◽  
Foreign Investor ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Arms Trade ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Dominant Actor ◽  
Trading Network ◽  
War Of The Pacific ◽  
Ambiguous Position

In this article Mr. Secada analyzes the origins of W. R. Grace and Company and its rise as a dominant actor in Peruvian economic history. He attributes this ascendancy primarily to the arms trade in which Grace engaged on behalf of the Peruvian government during the War of the Pacific (1879–84). Grace's early status as an intimate of the dominant Peruvian elite, its deft manipulation of its ambiguous position as an American shipping house, its imaginative construction of a nascent intercontinental trading network utilizing both sea and rail transport, and its willingness to invest its own capital in the development of potential product lines—all served to catapult the firm within a period of thirty years into a powerful trading house and foreign investor in Latin America.

José Martí's “Evening of Emerson” and the United Statesian Literary Tradition

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
LAURA LOMAS
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Jose Marti ◽  
Chinese Exclusion ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
A Minor ◽  
War Of The Pacific ◽  
Exclusion Act

Revising a century of interpretation that has emphasized the identification of José Martí with Ralph Waldo Emerson, this essay draws on Martí's unpublished and published manuscripts about Emerson to reveal Martí's keen sense of his difference from the New England bard. When we read Martí's 1882 eulogy to Emerson alongside contemporaneous essays about the Chinese Exclusion Act and the War of the Pacific, Martí's epiphany – which he calls the “evening of Emerson” – comes to suggest the evanescence of Emerson's influence. Martí here glimpses his contribution: a creative resignification and translation of Emerson and US culture more broadly in order to arrive at a distinct version of nuestra América. Although Emerson's influence persists, as he provides the phrase “our America,” Martí's interpretation transposes the phrase to a minor key and reveals the perspective of the Latin American migrant who presciently observes the threat of imperial expansion.

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

Itinerario ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Manuel Perez-Garcia ◽  
Li Wang ◽  
Omar Svriz-Wucherer ◽  
Nadia Fernández-de-Pinedo ◽  
Manuel Diaz-Ordoñez
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
European Markets ◽  
Early Modern China

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.

Japanese Labor in World War II

1990 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 29-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Rice
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Labor History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
World War ◽  
Japanese Workers ◽  
The Pacific

Apart from the intrinsic value of understanding the fate of Japanese workers during the war, Japanese labor history in World War II also gives us a non-Western point of comparison for studies of wartime labor in the West. To facilitate that comparison, we should consider government policy, the response of the labor movement, and the conditions of workers during the war. In Japan, labor and economic history periodization of World War II does not conform to the European and American conceptions. For the Japanese, the war began with the outbreak of the “China incident” in 1937; Pearl Harbor, traumatic as it was for the United States, only marks the beginning of a new stage the Japanese call the “Pacific War.” It is not surprising, then, that Japanese labor history begins its wartime phase in 1937. In fact, to comprehend changes during the 1937–45 war, at least brief mention must be made of earlier developments.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document