Comercio y atlantización del Pacífico Mexicano y sudamericano: La crisis del lago indiano y del Galeón de Manila, 1750-1821

Abstract

The essay has to aims to identify the factors that contributed to the crisis and disappearance of a trading system that was developed by the colonial Pacific between 1580 and 1750. They identified three reasons, all of which occurred in the period from 1750 to 1821. The first, the appearance on the scene of the peninsular commercial companies by the Pacific novohispano begin to compete commercially with the Manila galleon under review. The second reason is about the market close Peru foreign goods trade from Acapulco, through the opening of the route around Cabo de Hornos (1740) for the registration of ships traffic from Europe. The third one examines the British trade between Jamaica, Panama and the Mexican port of San Blas in the early decades of the nineteenth century.