Silver, trade, and war : Spain and America in the making of early modern Europe /
The 250 years covered by Silver, Trade, and War marked the era of commercial capitalism, that bridge between late medieval and modern times. Spain, peripheral to western Europe in 1500, produced American treasure in silver, which Spanish convoys bore from Portobelo and Veracruz on the Carribbean coa...
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Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Legacy. 1. Spain, Europe, and the Atlantic System, 1500-1700. 2. Financing Empire: The European Diaspora of Silver by War. 3. Westphalia: The Legacy of Unequal Treaties. 4. Conjunctural Crisis: War and the Utrecht Settlement
- pt. 2. Toward a Spanish-Bourbon Paradigm. 5. Conditions of Growth, 1700-1759. 6. Changing Patterns in the Transatlantic System: Flotas and Registros, 1720-1759. 7. Critical Voices, 1720-1759. 8. Toward the Mid-Century Crisis: Ensenada, 1743-1754. 9. By Way of Conclusion.