Apogee of Empire

Informationen zum Autor 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 Portugal at Princeton University's Firestone Library. The authors previously collaborated on The Colonial Heritage of Latin America and Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe, the latter available from Johns Hopkins. Klappentext 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" Zusammenfassung 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.

Autorentext
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 Portugal at Princeton University's Firestone Library. The authors previously collaborated on The Colonial Heritage of Latin America and Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.

Klappentext
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"


Zusammenfassung
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.

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