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  • Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene

    Edited by Peter Kelly, Peter Kraftl, Diego Carbajo Padilla, Rosalyn Black, Deborah MacDonald, Meave Noonan, Ana Sofia Ribeiro ...
    Series series Children and Young People in the Anthropocene
    This edited collection presents stories of children and young people’s entanglements with times of ongoing crisis in the Anthropocene. The authors use biographical narratives and arts-based methodologies to further the discussion surrounding young people’s well-being, resilience, and enterprise. Through these stories, they seek to critically engage with the literature on the Anthropocene and ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Early Modern Trading Networks in Europe

    Cooperation and the case of Simon Ruiz

    by Ana Sofia Ribeiro ...
    Series series Perspectives in Economic and Social History
    In the early modern period, trade became a truly global phenomenon. The logistics, financial and organizational complexity associated with it increased in order to connect distant geographies and merchants from different backgrounds. How did these merchants prevent their partners from dishonesty in a time where formal institutions and legislation did not traverse these different worlds? This book ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589

    by Toby Green ...
    Series Book 118 - African Studies
    The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Silver, Trade, and War

    Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe

    by Stanley J. Stein, Barbara H. Stein ...
    A look at the interaction of America, Spain, and Europe between 1500 and 1750, focusing on Spain's role in Europe's expansion across the Atlantic.The 250 years covered by this book marked the era of commercial capitalism, bridging late medieval and modern times. In 1500, Spain brought American silver back home across the Atlantic in exchange for European goods. Spanish colonialism, the authors ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tropical Babylons

    Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680

    Edited by Stuart B. Schwartz ...
    The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. In nine original essays by a multinational group of top scholars, Tropical Babylons re-evaluates this so-called “sugar revolution.” The most comprehensive comparative study to date of early Atlantic sugar economies, this collection presents a ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The History of Capitalism in Mexico

    Its Origins, 1521–1763

    by Enrique Semo ...
    Translated by Lidia Lozano ...
    Series series LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
    What lies at the center of the Mexican colonial experience? Should Mexican colonial society be construed as a theoretical monolith, capitalist from its inception, or was it essentially feudal, as traditional historiography viewed it? In this pathfinding study, Enrique Semo offers a fresh vision: that the conflicting social formations of capitalism, feudalism, and tributary despotism provided the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Eagle and the Dragon

    Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century

    by Serge Gruzinski ...
    In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe.In the early 1520s, Magellan set sail for Asia by the Western route, Cortes seized Mexico and some Portuguese based in Malacca dreamed of colonizing China. The Aztec Eagle ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415–1668

    by Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political economies. In spite of globalization’s minor importance ... Read more

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  • Distant Tyranny

    Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800

    by Regina Grafe ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Spain's development from a premodern society into a modern unified nation-state with an integrated economy was painfully slow and varied widely by region. Economic historians have long argued that high internal transportation costs limited domestic market integration, while at the same time the Castilian capital city of Madrid drew resources from surrounding Spanish regions as it pursued its quest ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance

    Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico

    Edited by William H. Beezley, Cheryl E. Martin, William E. French ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    This book presents readers with scholarship on public celebrations and popular culture throughout Mexican history. Leading scholars from the Americas and Great Britain discuss aspects of Mexico's popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present. The vast range of Mexican expression is examined, including Corpus Christi celebrations, New Spain, stone murals, and folk theater. Filling a ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Moors Dressed as Moors

    Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia

    by Javier Irigoyen-Garcia ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    In early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence.In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources: archival, legal, literary, and visual documents, as well as tailoring books, equestrian treatises, and festival books to reveal the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • A History of Portuguese Economic Thought

    by Antonio Almodovar, Jose Luis Cardoso ...
    Series series The Routledge History of Economic Thought
    A History of Portuguese Economic Thought offers the first account in English of the development of economic thought in Portugal. The authors adopt a comparative approach to analyse how economic doctrine, theories and policies have been disseminated and assimilated by Portuguese economists in different periods. They assess the influence on Portuguese economic thought of major economists such as ... Read more

    $70.99 USD