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- Title:
- GALLEON ISSUES cont.
- Date Created:
- 2021-09-05
- Description:
- In 1718 and 1720 King Philip V issued orders to stop the Philippine colony’s dependence on the faltering galleon trade. While stepping up agriculture for export (such as tobacco that became a monopoly 50 years later), the monarch sought to establish a royal trading company. It was the new business model proven successful by the Dutch and the British. He created one in 1733 but encountered resistance from galleon stalwarts that the idea lay latent. The principal contact of Filipinas with the outside world for newness rested in the solitary yearly Manila-Acapulco galleon sailing without a protective armada. Newness included changes wished by the monarchy, orders about new saints with devotions to promote, raging or rising culinary trends, scientific innovations, and philosophic developments. The second colonial century, 1665-1764, would become a tipping point for economic change affecting natives and their culinary exposure.
- Subjects:
- Admiral George Anson Galleon Trade Chinese Filipinas Manila-Acapulco
- Exhibition:
- Philippine Food 200
- Source:
- The Covadonga is overtaken by the Centurion led by Admiral George Anson at Cape Espiritu Santo, Samar. Maps were among the captured bounty that aided British nautical power. As Bob Couttie reminds, Anson was a naval officer with high rank and not a pirate. From the John Carter Brown Library, Boston University. In Carlos Quirino’s Philippine Cartography edited by Carlos Madrid (Vibal Foundation, 2018)
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Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "GALLEON ISSUES cont.", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll266.html