Apogee of Empire Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759-1789 |
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| Author:
| Stein, Stanley J.
Stein, Barbara H. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-7339-3 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2003 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $137.00 |
Book Description:
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Once Europe's supreme maritime power, Spain was facing fierce competition from England and France on the Atlantic by the mid eighteenth century. Further, its efforts to reconstruct its metropolitan economy and create an effective ''colonial impact'' with its American colonies were seriously stalled. In Apogee of Empire, Stanley J. Stein and ......
Once Europe's supreme maritime power, Spain was facing fierce competition from England and France on the Atlantic by the mid eighteenth century. Further, its efforts to reconstruct its metropolitan economy and create an effective ''colonial impact'' with its American colonies were seriously stalled. In Apogee of Empire, Stanley J. Stein and ......