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The Temptations of Trade : Britain, Spain, and the Struggle for Empire /
The British and the Spanish had long been in conflict, often clashing over politics, trade, and religion. But in the early decades of the eighteenth century, these empires signed an asiento agreement granting the British South Sea Company a monopoly on the slave trade in the Spanish Atlantic, openin...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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| Collection: | Early modern Americas.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Prologue : before the asiento
- 1. Britain hopes for the "riches of America," 1713-1716
- 2. The stuttering success of the early trade, 1717-1728
- 3. "Unjust depredations" and growing tensions, 1729-1738
- 4. The end of the British asiento, 1739-1748
- Epilogue : Beyond the asiento.