La carrera por las especias

• Autores: Gudrun Lenkersdorf
• Localización: Estudios de historia novohispana, ISSN-e 1870-9060, ISSN 0185-2523, Nº. 17, 1997, págs. 13-30
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • The race for the spices
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  • In the beginning of the modern age, rival commercial interests of Italian cities became allied with Portuguese and Spaniards to propitiate a nautical race around the globe in order to arrive to the Molucas, islands producers of the much coveted spices. During this enterprise, Spaniards stumbled against the New World. The anxiety to reach the Molucas explains why bankers were so eager to finance expeditions to New Spain, expecting to find a strait or build a fleet in the Pacific. Rival bankers had also an influence in crown governors' nomination that were adequate to their own interests, reason by which they had a direct influence in the political delimitations in Central America that still continues nowadays.