出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：This article analyzes the circulation of goods between Asia, America, and Europe employing a case-study perspective: the manufacturing and commerce of folding screens. Study of the economic networks related to art trade overcomes national or imperial boundaries and calls for a breakdown of conventional centre-periphery schemes. This article therefore studies personal relationships in the commission of screens and in the diffusion of the finished goods through a survey of the movements of people in four continents. My main aim is to show that the development of a world-economy and the formation of world-scale empires fostered exchanges of all kinds and resulted in a new material culture of a truly global character.
