2025/4/17

The Global Economic Zone of Latin America: Spain's and Portugal's Networks Driven By Tides, Winds and Sailing Ships, has been published. The book was edited by two Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (KUFS) professors: Professor Emeritus Ikunori Sumida, and Professor Takashi Ushijima of the Department of Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies. A total of seven professors made written contributions, including KUFS Department of Hispanic Studies Professor Tsubasa Okoshi and KUFS Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences Professor Hiroshi Minami. The work serves as collection of results and reports from the Research Center for Latin-American Studies research seminar "People Brought By Tides and Winds: The Formation of and Changes Within the Latin American Global Economic Zone," which was held on December 9, 2023.

Title: The Global Economic Zone of Latin America: Spain's and Portugal's Networks Driven By Tides, Winds and Sailing Ships
Editors: Ikunori Sumida, Takashi Ushijima
Contributors: Tsubasa Okoshi, Hiroshi Minami, others
Publisher: Akashi Shoten
Date of Publication: March 31, 2025
Format and Length: hardcover, 272 pages
ISBN: 978-4-7503-5926-7
MSRP: ¥3,200 + tax

The research reports contained within this collection center on exchanges that took place in Latin America during the Age of Discovery led by Christopher Columbus and other explorers, who made use of the tides and winds to enter and transform this region using sailing ships. By exploring the global economy of the early modern and modern eras based on wide-reaching, long-term, overarching perspectives, contributing researchers interpret events in terms of networks of people, goods, money and information.

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