Merchant Networks, Microspaces, and the Circulation of Ideas: Liberalism in the Wake of the Royal Company of the Philippines

• Main Author: Anduaga, Aitor; University
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol70/iss3/3; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/1132/viewcontent/Merchant_20Networks_2C_20Microspaces_20_5Bvol._2070_20no._202_20_282022_29_20365_E2_80_93401_5D.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

It is well known that the founding of the Royal Company of the Philippines not only stemmed from the late–eighteenth-century Bourbon Reforms but also gave rise to opium trading networks in East Asia. It is less known, however, that the company and the networks created by its employees constituted co...