Pedro Omar SVRIZ WUCHERER
2025-2026
Tomás y Valiente
Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Imperial Wines. Circulation, consumption and local adaptations in the evangelisation of the Iberian frontiers: the Philippines and Paraguay, 1580-1700
PhD in History and Humanistic Studies (UPO, 2019) and author of 2 Monographs, 3 edited books, 20 journal articles and 12 book chapters in high impact publishers contributing to the generation of knowledge on the global agency of the Jesuits and their economic and military practices in the early modern period, especially in Paraguay and Macau. He has carried out research stays in scientific centres in Argentina, China, Colombia, Germany, Italy, Macau and Spain,. He has obtained prestigious research contracts at predoctoral (FPU, UPO, 2014-2018) and postdoctoral level: Postdoctoral Researcher at GECEM Project ERC-StG. at UPO, 2019-2021; Juan de la Cierva-Formación at University of Seville, 2021-2023 and Viera y Clavijo at University of La Laguna (ULL), 2024-2025. In addition, at the ULL he served as Principal Investigator of the project Historia (des)conectada de los alimentos. Religiosidad, género y política entre los siglos XVIII y XX funded by that institution in 2025. Since 2014 he has been part of research teams in various projects at international, national and regional level.
Projet de recherche
This project questions the role of wine in the evangelisation of the Iberian Empires between 1580 and 1700. The importance of evangelisation in the conquest and colonisation of the frontiers of the Iberian empires is well known. In this context, the present research focuses on a single product: wine, a fundamental drink for the religious process because it had (and has) a key role in the Eucharist and the Mass. I therefore set out to analyse its circulation and consumption in two Iberian frontiers: a) Macau, the Philippine Islands and New Spain (present-day Mexico), and b) Brazil, Buenos Aires and Paraguay.
Thus, I will obtain a global perspective of a local phenomenon, which is truly presented as a ‘starting point of Globalisation’ (Frank 1998) and which allows us to place Latin America at the centre of analyses of early globalisation (Gruzinski 2010, Hausberger 2018, Doblado-Gonzalez & García-Hiernaux 2021). Thus, negotiation, competition, adoption and cultural changes in local populations will be key concepts in this research to understand the production and consumption of wine in the Iberian empires in the context of evangelisation during the early modern era.
Sélection de publications
2025. Glocalidades, individuos y resistencias en la Historia de América, (editor with Rocío Moreno Cabanillas), Madrid, Dykinson.
2024. Crucifijos y mercaderías. Jesuitas y economía en los Imperios Ibéricos, ss. XVI-XVIII (Editor), Madrid, Colección Biblioteca de Historia-CSIC
2024. “Productos importados en las misiones jesuíticas del Paraguay. Economía y circulaciones globales en las periferias del imperio hispánico (siglos XVII-XVIII)”, Revista Brasileira de História, vol. 44, nº 95. e277097. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1590/1806-93472024v44n95-11
2023. Jesuit and Asian Goods in the Iberian Empires, 1580-1700, Londres, Palgrave MacMillan.
2022. “The Jesuit Global networks of exchange of Asian goods: A “conflicting” musk load around the middle of the seventeenth century”, Atlantic Studies, 19 (3), pp.448-461.
