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Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759–1789
Stanley J. Stein
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Description for Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759–1789
Hardback. An in-depth study of incremental response by an old imperial order to challenges at home and abroad, Apogee of Empire is a sweeping account of the personalities, places, and policies that helped to shape the modern Atlantic world. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KB; HBJD; HBLL; KCLT; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 37. Weight in Grams: 794.
Once Europe's supreme maritime power, Spain by the mid-eighteenth century was facing fierce competition from England and France. England, in particular, had successfully mustered the financial resources necessary to confront its Atlantic rivals by mobilizing both aristocracy and merchant bourgeoisie in support of its imperial ambitions. Spain, meanwhile, remained overly dependent on the profits of its New World silver mines to finance both metropolitan and colonial imperatives, and England's naval superiority constantly threatened the vital flow of specie. When Charles III ascended the Spanish throne in 1759, then, after a quarter-century as ruler of the Kingdom of the Two ... Read more
Once Europe's supreme maritime power, Spain by the mid-eighteenth century was facing fierce competition from England and France. England, in particular, had successfully mustered the financial resources necessary to confront its Atlantic rivals by mobilizing both aristocracy and merchant bourgeoisie in support of its imperial ambitions. Spain, meanwhile, remained overly dependent on the profits of its New World silver mines to finance both metropolitan and colonial imperatives, and England's naval superiority constantly threatened the vital flow of specie. When Charles III ascended the Spanish throne in 1759, then, after a quarter-century as ruler of the Kingdom of the Two ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801873393
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V9780801873393
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About Stanley J. Stein
Stanley J. Stein is the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Culture and Civilization, emeritus, at Princeton University. His publications include Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900 and (with Roberto Crotes Conde) Latin America: A Guide to Economic History, 1830-1930. Barbara H. Stein is an independent historian and former bibliographer for Latin America, Spain, and ... Read more
Reviews for Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759–1789
A monumental contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the inner workings of the eighteenth-century Spanish Empire. New York Review of Books 2004 A major work of considerable scholarship and valuable insight... It should be in every library concerned with Spanish history.
Jeremy Black Journal for Maritime Research 2004 Few books in recent decades have been so successful in ... Read more
Jeremy Black Journal for Maritime Research 2004 Few books in recent decades have been so successful in ... Read more